PMID- 34255717
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210804
IS  - 1929-0748 (Print)
IS  - 1929-0748 (Electronic)
IS  - 1929-0748 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 6
DP  - 2021 Jun 30
TI  - Defining the Scope of Digital Public Health and Its Implications for Policy, 
      Practice, and Research: Protocol for a Scoping Review.
PG  - e27686
LID - 10.2196/27686 [doi]
LID - e27686
AB  - BACKGROUND: There has been rapid development and application of digital 
      technologies in public health domains, which are considered to have the potential 
      to transform public health. However, this growing interest in digital 
      technologies in public health has not been accompanied by a clarity of scope to 
      guide policy, practice, and research in this rapidly emergent field. OBJECTIVE: 
      This scoping review seeks to determine the scope of digital health as described 
      by public health researchers and practitioners and to consolidate a conceptual 
      framework of digital public health. METHODS: The review follows Arksey and 
      O'Malley's framework for conducting scoping reviews with improvements as 
      suggested by Levac et al. The search strategy will be applied to Embase, Medline, 
      and Google Scholar. A grey literature search will be conducted on 
      intergovernmental agency websites and country-specific websites. Titles and 
      abstracts will be reviewed by independent reviewers, while full-text reviews will 
      be conducted by 2 reviewers to determine eligibility based on prespecified 
      inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data will be coded in an iterative approach 
      using the best-fit framework analysis methodology. RESULTS: This research project 
      received funding from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Foundation 
      for Population and Public Health on January 1, 2020. The initial search was 
      conducted on June 1, 2020 and returned 6953 articles in total. After 
      deduplication, 4523 abstracts were reviewed, and 227 articles have been included 
      in the review. Ethical approval is not required for this review as it uses 
      publicly available data. CONCLUSIONS: We anticipate that the findings of the 
      scoping review will contribute relevant evidence to health policy makers and 
      public health practitioners involved in planning, funding, and delivering health 
      services that leverage digital technologies. Results of the review will be 
      strategically disseminated through publications in scientific journals, 
      conferences, and engagement with relevant stakeholders. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED 
      REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/27686.
CI  - (c)Ihoghosa Iyamu, Oralia Gomez-Ramirez, Alice X T Xu, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Devon Haag, 
      Sarah Watt, Mark Gilbert. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols 
      (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 30.06.2021.
FAU - Iyamu, Ihoghosa
AU  - Iyamu I
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0271-9468
AD  - School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 
      Vancouver, BC, Canada.
AD  - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FAU - Gomez-Ramirez, Oralia
AU  - Gomez-Ramirez O
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6632-564X
AD  - School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 
      Vancouver, BC, Canada.
AD  - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
AD  - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canadian HIV Trials Network, 
      Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FAU - Xu, Alice X T
AU  - Xu AXT
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8405-0766
AD  - School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 
      Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FAU - Chang, Hsiu-Ju
AU  - Chang HJ
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0369-2407
AD  - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FAU - Haag, Devon
AU  - Haag D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4955-1017
AD  - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FAU - Watt, Sarah
AU  - Watt S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5202-9874
AD  - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FAU - Gilbert, Mark
AU  - Gilbert M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5978-6843
AD  - School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, 
      Vancouver, BC, Canada.
AD  - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210630
PL  - Canada
TA  - JMIR Res Protoc
JT  - JMIR research protocols
JID - 101599504
PMC - PMC8280811
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - digital health
OT  - prevention
OT  - protocol
OT  - public health
OT  - scoping review
COIS- Conflicts of Interest: None declared.
EDAT- 2021/07/14 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/14 06:01
PMCR- 2021/06/30
CRDT- 2021/07/13 17:22
PHST- 2021/02/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/05/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/05/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/07/13 17:22 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/07/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/14 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - v10i6e27686 [pii]
AID - 10.2196/27686 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - JMIR Res Protoc. 2021 Jun 30;10(6):e27686. doi: 10.2196/27686.