Digital health literacy: A Quest for improving India’s Rural Health

While India tends to prioritize digital health services for the advancement of healthcare, this is a major impediment due to lack of awareness among the people about digital health education.Digital health is not just about knowing digital technology but also choosing the right digital information that is essential for human health.This will help in increasing awareness among the rural masses, promoting self-reliance and digital participation.Despite the presence of primary health centres in rural areas, they lack adequate doctors, staff and medical equipment.As a result, the rural health system has become paralyzed, so to come out from this situation digital health is a good option.Initiatives like Telemedicine are very effective in improving people's health, but in the absence of health literacy, it also becomes ineffective.Due to lack of literacy, the benefits of the government's digital health program do not reach the villages, which further exacerbates inequality.