Transforming women's health, empowerment, and gender equality with digital health: evidence-based policy and practice.

IF 23.8 1区医学 Q1 MEDICAL INFORMATICS

Lancet Digital Health Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI:10.1016/j.landig.2025.01.014

Israel Júnior Borges do Nascimento, Hebatullah Mohamed Abdulazeem, Ishanka Weerasekara, Jodie Marquez, Lenny T Vasanthan, Genevieve Deeken, Rosemary Morgan, Heang-Lee Tan, Isabel Yordi Aguirre, Lasse Østeengaard, Indunil Kularathne, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Robin van Kessel, Edson Zangiacomi Martinez, Govin Permanand, David Novillo-Ortiz

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Abstract

We evaluated the effects of digital health technologies (DHTs) on women's health, empowerment, and gender equality, using the scoping review method. Following a search across five databases and grey literature, we analysed 80 studies published up to Aug 18, 2023. The thematic appraisal and quantitative analysis found that DHTs positively affect women's access to health-care services, self-care, and tailored self-monitoring enabling the acquisition of health-related interventions. Use of these technologies is beneficial across various medical fields, including gynaecology, endocrinology, and psychiatry. DHTs also improve women's empowerment and gender equality by facilitating skills acquisition, health education, and social interaction, while allowing cost-effective health services. Overall, DHTs contribute to better health outcomes for women and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals by improving access to health care and financial literacy.

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以数字健康改变妇女健康、赋权和性别平等：基于证据的政策和实践。

我们使用范围审查方法评估了数字卫生技术（dht）对妇女健康、赋权和性别平等的影响。通过对五个数据库和灰色文献的搜索，我们分析了截至2023年8月18日发表的80项研究。专题评价和定量分析发现，dht对妇女获得保健服务、自我保健和量身定制的自我监测产生了积极影响，从而能够获得与健康有关的干预措施。这些技术的使用在各个医学领域都是有益的，包括妇科、内分泌学和精神病学。卫生保健部门还通过促进技能获取、卫生教育和社会互动，改善妇女赋权和性别平等，同时提供具有成本效益的卫生服务。总体而言，卫生保健技术有助于改善妇女的健康结果，并通过改善获得卫生保健和金融知识的机会来支持联合国可持续发展目标。

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Lancet Digital Health Multiple-

CiteScore

41.20

自引率

1.60%

发文量

232

审稿时长

13 weeks

期刊介绍： The Lancet Digital Health publishes important, innovative, and practice-changing research on any topic connected with digital technology in clinical medicine, public health, and global health. The journal’s open access content crosses subject boundaries, building bridges between health professionals and researchers.By bringing together the most important advances in this multidisciplinary field,The Lancet Digital Health is the most prominent publishing venue in digital health. We publish a range of content types including Articles,Review, Comment, and Correspondence, contributing to promoting digital technologies in health practice worldwide.