The digital determinants of health: a new era for global public health

Shaw, James, Gross, Nicole, Saldaña-Tejeda, Abril and et al., - (2026) The digital determinants of health: a new era for global public health. The Lancet. ISSN 0140-6736 (In Press)

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Abstract

Digital transformations exert increasing influence over the lives of the global population, shaping opportunities and generating harms for health and wellbeing across the spectrum of digital access and engagement. The scale of influence of digital transformations on human and planetary health marks the urgency of attention to the digital determinants of health (DDoH). In this Series paper, we describe a prevailing digital sociotechnological order (DSTO) as the structural source of the DDoH. The DSTO is composed of a set of dominant assumptions that motivate digital practices operating through four features (political norms, economic logics, infrastructures, and personal and social practices) to affect human and planetary health. We describe the implications of the DSTO for understanding, studying, and governing the DDoH, and present recommendations for future work.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > Information Science > Communication > Medical Informatics Q Science > QA Mathematics > Computer software > Mobile Phone Applications T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Computer software > Mobile Phone Applications Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4150 Computer Network Resources > The Internet > World Wide Web > Websites > Online social networks T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > Telecommunications > The Internet > World Wide Web > Websites > Online social networks
Divisions:	School of Business and Social Sciences > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User:	Tamara Malone
Date Deposited:	07 Oct 2026 09:32
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2026 09:32
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/9945

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