22.02.2024
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For the Prelims:About Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH), Objectives, Components |
Why in the news?
Achieving one of the three priority areas agreed upon during India’s G20 presidency in 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently launched the Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) virtually.
About Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH):
○Assess and prioritize the country’s needs for sustainable digital health transformation.
○Increase the alignment of country-level digital health resources and unfunded priorities.
○Support the accelerated achievement of the strategic objectives of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025.
○Build capacity and converge efforts to encourage local development, maintenance, and adaptation of digital health technologies to continuously changing needs.
○country needs tracker
○country resource portal (a map of resources available in a country)
○transformation toolbox that will share quality-assured digital tools
○knowledge exchange.
Source: Indian Express