DIGITAL HEALTH RIGHTS: INITIAL ANALYSIS

Digital health” is a term used to cover diverse information and communication technologies used in health systems, from mobile applications, to health management information systems, to tele-medicine and more. These technologies have the power to be transformative for health in low and middle-income countries. To make them work for everyone, though, requires thinking through the specific ways in which multiple existing forms of inequality may shape access and the interventions themselves, as well as how inequalities may shape the rights to privacy, autonomy, accountability, and participation for women and marginalized groups. This working paper sets out a conceptual framework that will inform our research and policy engagement, and examines how these concepts emerge in some global and regional guidelines and jurisprudence. A second inception paper maps laws, policies, and digital health interventions in Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam, and is complemented by an internal stakeholder mapping to inform development of a theory of change for the project.