Journal Seventeen Nr. 3

There is a growing consensus on the need to reflect on the ethical and legal principles that should guide the introduction of new technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, the Internet of Things, etc.) in digital health.

Epidemiology has recently witnessed great advances based on computational models. Its scope and impact are getting wider thanks to the new data sources feeding analytical frameworks and models. Besides traditional variables considered in epidemiology, large-scale social patterns can be now integrated in real time with multi-source data bridging the gap between different scales. In a hyper-connected world, models and analysis of interactions and social behaviors are key to understand and stop outbreaks. 

This article approaches some environmental aspects which, in Spain as well as in the rest of the world, have been affected, in certain extent, as a consequence of population confinement and economical activity reduction measures, applied during the COVID-19 crisis.

The present context of environmental degradation poses huge urgency to confronting the multiple challenges that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) offer. Health is a key issue as it acts as the Agenda’s cornerstone and interlinks every SDG and on the other hand, health achievement is not to be accomplished without the multiplicity of contributions of all the SGD.