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Digital health systems and inequities: exploring climate and environmental impacts Hammond, Natalie Benjamin, Peter Samuel, Gabrielle Elkin, Javier Rashid Soron, Tanjir Holman Matanta, Richard Obot, Akaninyene Carrión Ribas, Carme Canvis climàtics Climatic changes Salut -- Informàtica Health -- Data processing Medi ambient -- Degradació Environmental degradation The digital health community has taken an increased interest in climate and environmental issues. At the same time, and even though equity considerations have been central to digital health for decades, equity-focused approaches to climate and the environment have been less considered. In this commentary, we emphasize the need for equity to remain central to digital health as it shifts to address climate and environment-related challenges. We provided four case examples: electronic waste, early warning systems, digital systems infrastructure vulnerability and artificial intelligence resource use, to demonstrate the climate/environment digital health inequity nexus. We stress that, in not attending to this relationship, the digital transition may amplify rather than reduce inequities associated with climate and environmental challenges. We include a call to action for those in the digital health community to include equity considerations in the planning and designing of digital health solutions and systems aimed at addressing such climate and environmental challenges and beyond 3 2025-12-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion peer-reviewed http://hdl.handle.net/10256/28584 23678383 https://hdl.handle.net/10256/28584 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/oodh/oqaf034 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2754-4591 Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Oxford Academic Oxford open digital health, 2026, 4, oqaf034 Articles publicats (D-CM)