Ethical Considerations for Digital Public Health

Download or read book Ethical Considerations for Digital Public Health written by Denise Veelo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health guidelines and policies relating to digital public health are essential to ensuring the protection of the population. With this protection, there needs to be a consideration for the ethical challenges in public health. There is an obligation of care that comes with accessing health services, as well as a need for understanding the role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. As health challenges become more complex, there is a growing need to identify and address questions on existing public health policies, codes of conduct, and guidelines relating to the provision of medical care across the globe, in order to strengthen our understanding of the ethics of public health practices.