Elsevier,
Emerging Practices in Telehealth
Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field
2023, Pages 163-182
The need and opportunities for global health strategies to leverage the power of digital health technology to improve healthcare outcomes are growing. Telehealth and other digital health products and services are becoming increasingly important in this effort, and methodical strategies should be used to evaluate the need, application, integration, maintenance, and scaling of such solutions. With the correct attention upon these areas, digital health can serve as a catalyst to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce disparities across the world, supporting SDG3.
Elsevier,
Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Third Edition)
Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Healthcare
2023, Pages 707-714
Clinical Decision support provides an effective tool to minimize many of the drivers of health disparities in healthcare. There is promising evidence that these tools can serve to promote equity across the healthcare spectrum supporting SDG 3. However, future iterations require a focus on equity from the start and inclusive and sustainable development, implementation, and evaluation practices.
Drug resistance became widely recognized global threats in last two decades. Knowledge of drug resistance, development of new vaccines and medicines, public awareness program, government support (policies and incentive), development of new diagnostic tool, industrial support in medical research are the need of the hour that will help the mankind to fight back and deal with drug resistance and helps to support SDG3.
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by recognizing the importance of addressing health needs across various life stages within the family unit, emphasizing the significance of equal rights and access to healthcare for women, children, and men. It underscores the role of family and community support in promoting health through factors such as nutrition, education, and social and mental well-being, contributing to the overall health and well-being of individuals. Additionally, the discussion of the impact of aging on both individuals and families highlights the need for comprehensive health and social support systems to address the challenges associated with aging, thereby promoting good health and well-being for all members of society. Furthermore, acknowledges the influence of social inequities, poverty, and other factors such as displacement and mass trauma on family health. By advocating for the reduction of poverty and the provision of social support systems, the content supports efforts to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare and promote equitable health outcomes for all members of society.
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by emphasizing the importance of technology assessment capability in shaping health policy and priorities to improve health outcomes and quality of life. By promoting strong professional education and practice standards, accreditation processes, and educational programs for public health, the content supports efforts to enhance the quality of healthcare services and public health interventions. Additionally, it aligns with Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by recognizing the need to address disparities and ensure equitable access to evidence-based methods of prevention, diagnosis, and therapy. By advocating for continuous revision of legal frameworks and ethical standards in response to societal changes and emerging health challenges, the content underscores the importance of promoting fairness and equity in public health practices and policies. Moreover, it highlights the ethical imperative of public health interventions to protect populations from illness and premature death, thereby contributing to efforts aimed at reducing inequalities in health outcomes and promoting the well-being of all members of society.
The growth of predictive data analytics and the simultaneous growth in the availability of interoperable AI-enabled devices offer opportunities to mitigate healthcare disparities currently endemic in indigent, underrepresented, and underserved communities supporting SDG3.
Elsevier,
Genomic Data Sharing, Case Studies, Challenges, and Opportunities for Precision Medicine, 2023, Pages 71-90
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international standards development organization (SDO) focused on advancing human health and medicine through genomic data sharing and interoperability. Founded in 2013, the organization has evolved over time and has adapted to unexpected challenges in ways that we believe would be of interest to the broad biomedical community. In this chapter, we present our experiences to support others wishing to share data through global, community-driven standards supporting SDG3.
Elsevier,
Genomic Data Sharing, Case Studies, Challenges, and Opportunities for Precision Medicine, 2023, Pages 71-90
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international standards development organization focused on advancing human health and medicine through genomic data sharing and interoperability. Founded in 2013, the organization has evolved over time and has adapted to unexpected challenges. Three themes have emerged as critical to the organization's success: (1) community needs must drive development; (2) agility is necessary to create global equity and opportunity; (3) developing an idea into a widely adopted standard requires multiple levels of consensus furthering SDG3.
With the aging global population, the relationship between older people and their residential environments is increasingly important. This relationship is based on the match between the individual characteristics of a person, their needs and expectations, and the characteristics of their environment. By creating access to various health improvement factors and exposure to various risk factors, the conditions under which an individual ages can be modified. This helps to accelerate or decelerate the process of incapacitation that individuals undergo as they age. This can also reduce or reinforce socio-spatial inequalities, which underlie the preponderant role of territory and spatial policies in the prevention and promotion of healthy aging. This chapters supports the process for developing the Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020 – 2030) aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG3).
An estimated 50 million people around the world currently live with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, dementia being a collective term for progressive syndromes that affect various expressions of cognitive function, such as memory and emotional expression. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for the majority of cases (50 to 70%, varying by country, based on Alzheimer’s Disease International and World Health Organization figures).
