Leandro Augusto de Almeida Costa, Brena Ataíde Furtado, Edilson Brabo Almeida, Bianca Callegari, Alex Harley Crisp, Rafael Oliveira Chaves, Maria da Conceição Nascimento Pinheiro, Givago Silva Souza
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E-waste for health: recycling smartphones for health monitoring.
Portable digital electronic devices have been widely used around the world for different everyday tasks. However, every day there is also an increasing dumping of these electronic devices, especially smartphones, creating a public health problem called electronic waste or e-waste. This Viewpoint discusses how e-waste could be used by governments to promote digital health policies, especially in poorer countries. The use of e-waste could lower health care costs and reduce exposure to the metals contained in these materials.