{"id":20699,"date":"2024-02-21T06:33:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T01:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20699"},"modified":"2025-04-06T03:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:35:22","slug":"gidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gidh\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0WHO managed network aiming to amplify and align resources toward country-led digital health transformation through strengthened collaboration and knowledge exchange.<\/li>\n<li>It is a platform for\u00a0sharing knowledge and digital products among countries.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to achieve the\u00a0following objectives through collaborative efforts:\n<ul>\n<li>Assess and prioritize the country\u2019s needs\u00a0for sustainable digital health transformation.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the alignment of country-level digital health resources and unfunded priorities.<\/li>\n<li>Support the\u00a0accelerated achievement\u00a0of the strategic\u00a0objectives of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025.<\/li>\n<li>Build capacity and converge efforts to encourage local development, maintenance, and adaptation of digital health technologies to continuously changing needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The initiative\u00a0will be a network of networks with four main components:\n<ul>\n<li>country needs tracker<\/li>\n<li>country resource portal (a map of resources available in a country)<\/li>\n<li>transformation toolbox that will share quality-assured digital tools<\/li>\n<li>knowledge exchange.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>GIDH will support countries in three ways: by listening to their needs, by aligning resources to avoid fragmentation and overlap, and by providing quality assured products.<\/li>\n<li>Membership: Membership is\u00a0open to all institutions engaged in digital health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable \u2013 so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/who-launches-digital-health-platform-agreed-upon-in-indias-g20-presidency-9171960\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>WHO launches digital health platform agreed upon in India\u2019s G20 presidency<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Initiative on Digital Health is a WHO managed platform for sharing knowledge and digital products among countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}