Opportunities and Challenges for an Organizational Digital Public Health Strategy in a Provincial Public Health Program in Canada: Qualitative Description of Practitioner Perspectives
A cohesive, systematic, and proactive organizational strategy for DPH is critical to enable equity-focused digital transformation. Such a strategy can bridge perceived disconnects between digital and public health functions through organizational supports like competency development and streamlined policies that can better support public health practitioners to integrate digital technologies into their work.
Authors
- Anna Carson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6848-2937)
- Ian Roe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9278-4951)
- K. Austin Kerr
- Devon Haag (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4955-1017)
- Colin King (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-4844)
- Mark Gilbert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5978-6843)
- Sofia Bartlett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0699-2250)
- Ivy Wang
- Ihoghosa Iyamu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0271-9468)
Institutions
- Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (CA)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- BC Centre for Disease Control (CA)
- Health Solutions (Sweden) (SE)
- Independent Age (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
- Published
- 2025-05-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/72588
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82