Improving health and reducing health inequality: An innovation of digitalization?

Meirui Zhong, Dan Qiang, Jinxian Wang and Weizeng Sun

Social Science & Medicine, 2024, vol. 348, issue C

Abstract: The association between digitalization and individual health has attracted increasing attention from both scholars and policymakers. Existing research, however, has not agreed on whether digitization can improve health or reduce health inequality.

Keywords: Digitalization; Health; Health inequality; Relative health deprivation; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116847

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