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. 2021 Aug 24:9:672732.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.672732. eCollection 2021.

The Contribution of Digital Health in the Response to Covid-19 in Vietnam

Long Viet Bui  1 , Son Thai Ha  2 , Ha Ngoc Nguyen  3 , Truong Thanh Nguyen  4 , Thuy Phuong Nguyen  5 , Kien Tran  6 , Tuyen Van Tran  7 , Tu Huu Nguyen  8 , Thong Huy Tran  1 , Nghiem Duc Pham  9 , Hanh My Bui  10   11
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The Contribution of Digital Health in the Response to Covid-19 in Vietnam

Long Viet Bui et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Emerging from early of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the most serious health crisis globally. In response to such threat, a wide range of digital health applications has been deployed in Vietnam to strengthen surveillance, risk communication, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19. Digital health has brought enormous benefits to the fight against COVID-19, however, numerous constrains in digital health application remain. Lack of strong governance of digital health development and deployment; insufficient infrastructure and staff capacity for digital health application are among the main drawbacks. Despite several outstanding problems, digital health is expected to contribute to reducing the spread, improving the effectiveness of pandemic control, and adding to the dramatic transformation of the health system the post-COVID era.

Keywords: COVID-19; Vietnam; digital health; policy; public health.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Cumulative COVID-19 cases recorded in Vietnam from 23 Jan 2020 to 23 Feb 2021.
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