[Development and applications of digital public health].

Rapidly upgraded digital technology has impacted all walks of life, and public health field is also undergoing a digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the wide use of digital technology in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, greatly enhancing the capacity of public health system in emergency response and routine disease prevention and control. This article summarizes the definition of digital public health, applications of digital technology in the prevention and control of infectious diseases and chronic non-communicable diseases, as well as in public health surveillance, discusses the challenges in the development of digital public health and introduces the eight principles for digital transformation of public health proposed by the Pan American Health Organization.日新月异的数字技术重塑了各行各业，公共卫生同样经历着数字化转型。在新型冠状病毒肺炎大流行的催化下，数字技术被快速、广泛应用于传染病防控，提升公共卫生体系的应急处置和常态化防控的能力。本文对数字公共卫生的概念、数字技术在传染病、慢性非传染性疾病防控和公共卫生监测中的应用进行介绍。本文也讨论了发展数字公共卫生面临的挑战和概述泛美卫生组织提出的公共卫生的数字化转型的指导原则。.