Beyond the Bench and Bedside: Health Literacy Is Fundamental to Sustainable Health and Development.

Thirty years after the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - predicated on seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - were unveiled to the global community. Health literacy is an essential precondition and indicator of achieving the SDGs. Efforts to define and describe health literacy within public health and medicine have identified that the skills and abilities of many populations are inadequate to navigate the demands and complexity of health and healthcare.

Health and Well-Being Metrics in Business: The Value of Integrated Reporting.

Objective: Health and well-being (HWB) are material to sustainable business performance. Yet, corporate reporting largely lacks the intentional inclusion of HWB metrics. This brief report presents an argument for inclusion of HWB metrics into existing standards for corporate reporting.

The Importance of Computer Science for Public Health Training: An Opportunity and Call to Action.

A century ago, the Welch-Rose Report established a public health education system in the United States. Since then, the system has evolved to address emerging health needs and integrate new technologies. Today, personalized health technologies generate large amounts of data.

The Emergence of Personalized Health Technology.

Personalized health technology is a noisy new entrant to the health space, yet to make a significant impact on population health but seemingly teeming with potential. Devices including wearable fitness trackers and healthy-living apps are designed to help users quantify and improve their health behaviors. Although the ethical issues surrounding data privacy have received much attention, little is being said about the impact on socioeconomic health inequalities.