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Perspective: Improving social connection and inclusion through equitable digital health solutions

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this Perspective, we address the critical intersection of digital health, social connection, and health equity. Taking an interdisciplinary and complex adaptive systems perspective, we highlight evidence-based digital solutions to improve social connection and inclusion and, consequently, health outcomes. We describe actionable strategies for ensuring that digital health innovations benefit all, highlighting how user-centered design can address diverse needs, particularly for structurally disadvantaged populations.
DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-02264-z
Authors: Dominika Kwasnicka, Jaimon Kelly, Eleanor Quested, Loretta Baldassar, Suzanne Robinson, Richard Sinnott, Paul O’Halloran, Anne Tiedemann, Paul Flatau, Rajna Ogrin, Jane Farmer, Abby C. King
Institutions: The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Deakin University, La Trobe University, The University of Sydney, The University of Western Australia, Swinburne University of Technology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,090
OpenAlex ID: W7117143701
FWCI: 2.258
Cites: 37
Cited by: 1
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