Health Populi July 5, 2021
Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care.
The COVID-19 era has shined a bright light on what some of us have been saying since the advent of the Internet’s emergence in health care: that digital literacies and connectivity are “super social determinants of health” because they underpin other social determinants of health, discussed in Digital inclusion as a social determinant of health, published in Nature’s npj Digital Medicine.
On the downside, lack of access to digital tools and literacies can increase disparities among people already at-risk for other social determinants of health.
The authors lay out several dimensions of...
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