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Establishing Standards to Evaluate the Impact of Integrating Digital Health into Health Systems

Alain Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, William Weiss and Kate Wilson
Global Health: Science and Practice October 2018, 6(Supplement 1):S5-S17; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00230
Alain Labrique
aJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Lavanya Vasudevan
aJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
bDepartment of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
cCenter for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
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William Weiss
aJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Kate Wilson
dDigital Impact Alliance, Washington, DC, USA.
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    Map of Digital Health Pilot Projects in Uganda in 2010

    Source: Sean Blaschke, UNICEF, written communication, May 2016.

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    WHO Model Illustrating Health System Constraints

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    WHO Classification of Digital Health Interventions Released December 2017

    Source: WHO (2018).27

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    Methods and Objectives of Monitoring and Evaluation Activities Across the Lifespan of a Digital Health Program

    Source: World Health Organization (2016).33

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    WHO-ITU National eHealth Strategy Toolkit eHealth Building Blocks

    Abbreviations: ITU, International Telecommunication Union; WHO, World Health Organization.

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    The PATH-Vital Wave Data Use Cycle

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Alain Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, William Weiss, Kate Wilson
Global Health: Science and Practice Oct 2018, 6 (Supplement 1) S5-S17; DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00230

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    • INTRODUCTION
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