The Impact of the Digital Health Interventions in Curbing COVID-19 in Zimbabwe

Chidhau, Stephen; Mutizwa, Bismark; Muzama, Tinashe R.

doi:10.36079/lamintang.ijcims-0301.203

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“…A total of 46 relevant studies were included in the final synthesis. These studies scrutinised various aspects of DHTs, entailing 19 types of DHTs with 20 areas of use that can be compressed Others: check-in kiosks, emails, online patient portals, self-management home monitoring devices, chatbots (28,51,(53)(54)(55)62) others. Many examples exist that show how sensors developed during the COVID-19 era can revolutionise how current and future PHC care is delivered.…”

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A systematic scoping review of digital health technologies during COVID-19: a new normal in primary health care delivery

2023

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This scoping review compiled information concerning digital health technologies (DHTs) evolution to support primary health care (PHC) during COVID-19 and lessons for the future of PHC. The identified literature was published during the COVID-19 peak years (2019–2021), retrieved from PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar, as well as hand searched on the internet. Predefined inclusion criteria were used, thematic analysis was applied, and reporting followed the PRISMA for Scoping Reviews.A total of 46 studies were included in the final synthesis (40 articles, one book, two book chapters, one working paper, and two technical reports). These studies scrutinized various aspects of DHTs, entailing 19 types of DHTs with 20 areas of use that can be compressed into five bigger PHC functions: general PHC service delivery (teleconsultations, e-diagnosis, e-prescription, etc.); behavior promotion and digital health literacy (e.g., combating vaccine hesitancy); surveillance functions; vaccination and drugs; and enhancing system decision-making for proper follow-up of ongoing PHC interventions during COVID-19.DHTs have the potential to solve some of the problems that have plagued us even prior to COVID-19. Therefore, this study uses a forward-looking viewpoint to further stimulate the use of evidence-based DHT, making it more inclusive, educative, and satisfying to people’s needs, both under normal conditions and during outbreaks. More research with narrowed research questions is needed, with a particular emphasis on quality assurance in the use of DHTs, technical aspects (standards for digital health tools, infrastructure, and platforms), and financial perspectives (payment for digital health services and adoption incentives).

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A systematic scoping review of digital health technologies during COVID-19: a new normal in primary health care delivery

2023

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“…Additionally, big data and other DHTs, such as check-in kiosks, emails, online patient portals, self-management home monitoring devices, and chatbots, were also noted. eHealth: telehealth, telemedecine, e-prescription, e-referral, e-Mental health, telepsychiatry, clinic-based telehealth, telehealth visits (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)27,49,52,55) Devices: wearables, wearable health devices, portable electrocardiograms, telemedical stethoscopes, telemedical ECGs, remote monitoring devices, laboratory-on-a-chip' devices (26,27,37,(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)60) Digital tracing (28,29) Testing, self-testing (self-screening) (30,31) Websites, Platforms, Trials Platform (25,(32)(33)(34)(35)(36) Monitoring Internet of Things (IoT) (39,55) Artificial intelligence (AI) (26,37,(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)60) Big data (39,55) G...…”

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A Systematic Scoping Review of Digital Health Technologies During COVID-19: A New Normal in Primary Health Care Delivery

Ndayishimiye

Lopes²,

Middleton

2022

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This scoping review compiled information concerning digital health technologies (DHTs) evolvement to support the primary health care (PHC) sector during COVID-19 and lessons for the future PHC. The identified literature has been published during the COVID-19 peak years (2019–2021), retrieved from PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar, as well as hand searched on the internet. Predefined inclusion criteria were used; thematic analysis was applied; and reporting followed the PRISMA for Scoping Reviews.A total of 46 studies were included in the final synthesis: 40 articles; one book; two book chapters; one working paper; and two technical reports. These studies scrutinized various aspects of DHTs, entailing 19 types of DHTs with 20 areas of use that can be compressed into five bigger PHC functions: general PHC service delivery (teleconsultations, e-diagnosis, e-prescription, etc.); behaviour promotion and digital health literacy (e.g., combating vaccine hesitancy); surveillance functions; vaccination and drugs; and enhancing system decision-making for proper follow-up of ongoing PHC interventions during COVID-19.DHTs have the potential to solve some of the problems that plagued us even prior to COVID-19. Therefore, this study uses a forward-looking viewpoint to further stimulate the use of evidence based DHT, making it more inclusive, educative, and satisfying to people's needs, both under normal conditions and during outbreaks. More research with narrowed research questions is required, with a particular emphasis on quality assurance in the use of DHTs; technical aspects (standards for digital health tools, infrastructure, and platforms); and financial perspectives (payment for digital health services and adoption incentives).

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“…The study followed the "healthcare signaling theory" concerned with improving healthcare infrastructure to limit coronavirus cases (see Anser et al 2021b;Chidhau et al 2021;Popov et al 2021). In line with the theoretical expectations, the previous studies worked on the linear relationship between different socio-economic and environmental factors and the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

Anser

Godil

Khan

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The world faces a high alert of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to a million deaths and could become infected to reach a billion numbers. A sizeable amount of scholarly work has been available on different aspects of social-economic and environmental factors. At the same time, many of these studies found the linear (direct) causation between the stated factors. In many cases, the direct relationship is not apparent. The world is unsure about the possible determining factors of the COVID-19 pandemic, which need to be known through conducting nonlinearity (indirect) relationships, which caused the pandemic crisis. The study examined the nonlinear relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages, managing financial development, renewable energy consumption, and innovative capability in a cross section of 65 countries. The results show that inbound foreign direct investment first increases and later decreases because of the increasing coronavirus cases. Further, the rise and fall in the research and development expenditures and population density exhibits increasing coronavirus cases across countries. The continued economic growth initial decreases later increase by adopting standardized operating procedures to contain coronavirus disease. The inter-temporal relationship shows that green energy source and carbon damages would likely influence the coronavirus cases with a variance of 17.127% and 5.440%, respectively, over a time horizon. The policymakers should be carefully designing sustainable healthcare policies, as the cost of carbon emissions leads to severe healthcare issues, which are likely to get exposed to contagious diseases, including COVID-19. The sustainable policy instruments, including renewable fuels in industrial production, advancement in cleaner production technologies, the imposition of carbon taxes on dirty production, and environmental certifications, are a few possible remedies that achieve healthcare sustainability agenda globally.

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The Impact of the Digital Health Interventions in Curbing COVID-19 in Zimbabwe

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

A systematic scoping review of digital health technologies during COVID-19: a new normal in primary health care delivery

A systematic scoping review of digital health technologies during COVID-19: a new normal in primary health care delivery

A Systematic Scoping Review of Digital Health Technologies During COVID-19: A New Normal in Primary Health Care Delivery

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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