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.

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.