Digital health – an enabler for better health in Africa
In healthcare systems, digital health solutions have the potential to facilitate substantial developments in the quality and delivery of services. For instance, with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare delivery has deviated from regular face-to-face methods to remotely accessed methods [1]. Digital health is a broad term that includes the use of information and communication technology, such […]
Reinforcing the New Public Health Order to Bridge the Gaps in Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
Non- Communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, are diseases that are not transmitted from person to person. NCDs are of long duration and are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors.[1] In the Africa region there are four main types of NCDs: cardiovascular diseases (like heart attacks and […]
