Overview

Digital transformation is happening at a rapid pace in health care, and at the same time, all interactions of everyday living are already digitally mediated.  The digital era provides Medicine and Public Health professionals opportunities to reach and interact with populations efficiently and thus tackle health disparity and access problems. … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

Provide an understanding of digital health paradigms and approaches, to equip students with applied knowledge and capabilities to digitally enable effective medicine and public health approaches in the future. 

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Understand paradigms, approaches and methods of Digital Health
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Investigate using methods and resources to identify opportunities and issues for designing public health-focussed applications in traditional health services
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Ideate novel public health intervention design in the context of digitally mediated interactions in day-to-day life
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Critically examine the role of digitisation of society on health through the lens of ethics, autonomy, agency, wellbeing, and social disparities
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Construct data insights and understanding of the nature and the context of work focusing on the application of digital health technologies
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Communicate effectively in a range of technical and Digital Health Solutions

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