Technological transition and Health Support - WHO

BasicInternet:Technological transition and Health Support - WHO

Title	Technological transition and Health Support - WHO
Place	Phone
Date, Time	2020/03/16, 1530-1610
Contact Person	Josef.Noll
Participants	Josef.Noll, Rüdiger Krech
related to Project	BasicInternet, DigI
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Main take away

During the phone conference we addressed the following topics

Knowledge and behaviour change

common understanding that involving schools and providing digital health at school is an excellent way to change behaviour of parents and societies
though, how to introduce the digital health package at schools is more complex, and needs involvement of decision makers

Community involvement

core in community involvement is to include the decision makers, as there is the need on adapting the decision processes and establish good governance for health.
Evidence for community involvement as a positive contribution is not commonly accepted

Governance at Urban Level

WHO has started a project on Governance at urban level, in order to see how ownership for health education can be better grounded in the local governments

Indicators for Health governance

Though the goal of providing digital access and a health information package at every primary health facility is commonly agreed, the way to get there is not that straight forward
every new indicator, e.g. number of connected primary health stations, has a cost budget, typically 100k - 1MEUR/indicator
Thus, we need to ensure that the indicators are meaningful and have a clear cost-benefit, especially as compared to other health indicators
Methods to establish indicators need to be scientifically proven, and the results need to be reproducible

Technological Transition- and impact on health strategies

Health is a seismograph of the society was a common starting point, given the challenges of countries like NO and DE in answering to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
What we see is that technological transition and innovation is much faster than what people are able to adapt
Thus, we have the need to regulate innovations and technology development to contribute on better health and better wellbeing. The two dimensions are a) to adopt innovations to answer health challenges, and b) to establish a regulatory framework for the outcome of the innovations.
Examples being discussed were 5GforAll, 6G, big data and data ownership

We concluded that we need to discuss more, based on the summary of the activities by UiO and the Basic Internet Foundation.

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