Africa: Boosting Digital Health Can Help Prevent Millions of Deaths From Noncommunicable Diseases

[WHO] An investment today of an additional US$0.24 per patient per year in digital health interventions, such as telemedicine, mobile messaging and chatbots, can help save more than 2 million lives from noncommunicable diseases over the next decade, says a new report released jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and ITU (International Telecommunication Union). This investment could also avert approximately 7 million acute events and hospitalizations, significantly reducing the strain on healthcare



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Publish date : 2024-09-24 07:52:06

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