Digital health technologies to support access to medicines and pharmaceutical services in the achievement of sustainable development goals.
Niranjan KonduriFrancis Aboagye-NyameDavid MabiriziKim HoppenworthMohammad Golam KibriaSeydou DoumbiaLucilo WilliamsGreatjoy MazibukoPublished in: Digital health (2018)
The level of engagement with users and stakeholders was resource-intensive and required an iterative process to ensure successful implementation. Ensuring user acceptance, ownership, and a culture of data use for decision-making takes time and effort to build human resource capacity. For future United Nations voluntary national reviews, countries and global stakeholders must establish appropriate measurement frameworks to enable the compilation of disaggregated data on Sustainable Development Goal 3 indicators as a precondition to fully realize the potential of digital health technologies.