Table 2.

Terms and definitions.

Term	Definition
Digital literacy	The ability to find, use, and compose information through digital platforms
Social justice	Fairness, especially in how people are treated, what opportunities they have, and how decisions are made
Digital health social justice	The equitable opportunity for everyone to access, use, and benefit from digital health, to achieve their greatest standard of health and wellbeing.
Digital health	The use of apps, text-messaging and online interventions for health
Equity	A situation in which resources are distributed and tailored to the needs of the recipients.
Equality	A situation in which everyone has the same resources available to them.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR)	A research approach that involves partnerships between academic institutions, community-based organizations and community participants (10).
Digital intervention	A strategy to decrease delay in receiving help and advice as well as to improve treatment strategies to be evidence-based.
Social justice point of view	Utilizing social justice as the primary lens and objective to analyze the scenario, case, project, or research at hand
Community	A group of individuals that share some commonalities. This can be based on common characteristics (such as place of living, affinity, affiliation, demographics) or by the sheer bond between the individuals.
Social justice framework	A perspective that enables evaluation of a scenario to limit inequity and empowering those who are involved.
Human centered design	An approach consisting of one-on-one interviews, brainstorming sessions, and prototype testing with community members.
Social determinants of health	An individuals' social and/or structural environment, including education, employment and poverty
Open source	Software that is made available to the greater public, usually under a license, that gives anyone the freedom to use, change, and study it.
De-identification of Data	The removal of identifiable information to mitigate privacy breaches.
Algorithm	A process that is usually on the computer that calculates
Informed consent	An agreement with open communication between patient and practitioner for the patient to undergo a medical procedure or participate in a study.
Representation	A study has ample ”representation” in its study participant pool if individuals of different characteristics are sufficiently present in the pool.
Data return	Returning data taken of participants of a study or project to those individuals to benefit and empower them.
Unintended consequences	The materialization of consequences that were not foreseen by researchers or project teams.