The digital rainbow: Digital determinants of health inequities

• Published in: Digital health Vol. 8; p. 20552076221129093
• Main Authors: Jahnel, Tina, Dassow, Hans-Henrik, Gerhardus, Ansgar, Schüz, Benjamin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 2022; Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Digitization; Health disparities; Public health; rainbow model; Digital health; socioecological model; digital divide; health inequity

The widely used socioecological rainbow model from Dahlgren and Whitehead specifies determinants of health inequity on multiple hierarchical levels and suggests that these determinants may interact both within and between levels. At the time of its inception, digital determinants only played a minor...