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World leading public & digital health expert Iiona Kickbusch in #adelaide #healthinallinstitute workshop considering impact of digital tech on health systems and wellbeing. Prof Kickbusch referred to very concerning research findings 46% of women aged 16-24 have a mental health disorder. 'Digital Determinants of Health' has +/- consequence and societal and personal impacts from over use and reliance on digital technology, including the digital divide - data solidarity (sovereignty and social/public value), affordability, varying quality of health information via social media, accessibilty issues to digital health services and tech eg smartwatches, the current power and role with incentive of profit maximisation in health and wellbeing from for-profit sector. Whether digital health supports or destroys the community and impacts the behaviour, trust, polarisation in social. People are being pushed into polarised positions by social media and the algorithms eg during Covid approx 20 people influenced millions of people through that lack of control on social media spreading mis- information. Health is being used via digital technologies to influence the social discourse and create polarisation and distrust, and lack of consensus. Discussed Ethical AI and the need for more work on Digital Ethics, AI predictive analysis, AI powered automation, and the lacknof regulation with for-profit sector driving technology / social media, with need for legislation to promote 'trusted digital platforms and assessing digital health products and services. Useful reference is recent book by Jonathan Haidt 'Anxious generation' proposing the rise in younger people's anxiety and wellbeing concerns commenced in 2012 with the release of the camera on a Smartphone resulting in the rise of phone based childhood, decline of childhood play, negatively impacting body image on young women and increased negative societal consequence from pornography from the use of internet by young men. ie Social media is causing harm to people's health and wellbeing. Noting the positive step taken in #southaustralia with Education Department banning mobile phones in the classroom to reduce time and use of the internet and social media - introducing a social norm on not using a phone at school. #datasaveslives #digitalhealth
