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The Contribution of Digital Health in the Response to Covid-19 in Vietnam
Document Type
article
Source
Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021)
Subject
digital health
COVID-19
public health
policy
Vietnam
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Language
English
ISSN
2296-2565
Abstract
Emerging from early of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most serious health crisis globally. In response to such threat, a wide range of digital health applications has been deployed in Vietnam to strengthen surveillance, risk communication, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19. Digital health has brought enormous benefits to the fight against COVID-19, however, numerous constrains in digital health application remain. Lack of strong governance of digital health development and deployment; insufficient infrastructure and staff capacity for digital health application are among the main drawbacks. Despite several outstanding problems, digital health is expected to contribute to reducing the spread, improving the effectiveness of pandemic control, and adding to the dramatic transformation of the health system the post-COVID era.