(The Gist of PIB) Global Leaders Adopt ‘Delhi Declaration’ on Digital Health [MARCH-2019]

(The Gist of PIB) Global Leaders Adopt ‘Delhi Declaration’ on Digital Health [MARCH-2019]

Global Leaders Adopt ‘Delhi Declaration’ on Digital Health

• Recently, as part of the high-level summit, the ministers and delegation adopted the Delhi.

Key highlights

• Declaration on digital health for sustainable development.
• It was adopted at the concluding session of the ‘4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit’.
• The declaration calls for World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) leadership in digital health and for it to establish a specific mechanism to centrally coordinate digital health to assist its Member States.
• An example of application of Digital Health for sustainable development is telemedicine, remote care and mobile health delivering care in people’s homes, instead of in hospitals and clinics.
• The global intergovernmental meeting on digital health washosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP)

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