POLICY BRIEF article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Digital Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1682320
This article is part of the Research TopicDigital Technologies in Chronic Disease Management: Strategies for Enhanced PreventionView all 10 articles
Equity by Design: Integrating a Deprivation Index into Digital Platforms for Breast Cancer and Chronic Disease Prevention -Lessons from the ELISAH Project
Provisionally accepted
Silvia Ussai1,2*
Arantza Sanvisens Bergé3
Ellas Spyratou4
Patrizia Pasanisi2Roberto Boffi2
Giovanna Tagliabue2Mykhailo Mosora5
Alessandro Borgini2
Paolo Contiero2- 1Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS), SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy
- 2Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
- 3Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- 4Ethniko kai Kapodistriako Panepistemio Athenon, Athens, Greece
- 5FrankoLytics Ukraine, Kyiev, Ukraine
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Socio-economic inequalities influence chronic disease risk and access to prevention. The ELISAH project developed a digital framework integrating a Deprivation Index to address disparities in breast cancer and other chronic diseases. Using nationally validated indices, the platform links socio-economic, demographic, environmental, and behavioral data, with a conflict-sensitive version for displaced populations. Pilots in urban and conflict-affected settings confirmed feasibility, enabling real-time equity mapping and tailored interventions. While full outcome data are pending, early results show that embedding a Deprivation Index can operationalize equity in digital health, supporting targeted prevention, informed policy, and resilience in both stable and crisis-affected health systems.
Keywords: Equity, Conflict-affected settings, cancer prevention, Digital Health, ELISAH equity1, conflict-affected settings2, cancer prevention3, digital4
Received: 08 Aug 2025; Accepted: 30 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ussai, Bergé, Spyratou, Pasanisi, Boffi, Tagliabue, Mosora, Borgini and Contiero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Silvia Ussai, ussai.silvia@gmail.com
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