## 4 Discussion
In this scenario, the health pod could result in an important tool to empower people toward taking care of their own health jointly with the national welfare system and its main actors, in particular in a post-pandemic scenario. Similarly, the possibility to obtain a global picture of the health of the general population for a certain territory/location/group of users could help the national or territorial welfare system to design and plan the most proper strategies to implement efficient healthcare to improve public health. Moreover, in the frame of corporate welfare actions, companies can place the pods in their sites/offices to encourage employees to use them by means of incentives or discounts on selected health-related products or services when certain goals are met. The European Union recently released \"The Economy of Wellbeing\" plan as one of the most important priorities for EU in the next years [29], where people's well-being is a principal aim of the European Union. This document specifically highlights the need for putting people at the center of policy with a growth model that should be equitable and sustainable from the outset [30]. Citizens' well-being should drive economic prosperity, stability, and resilience, and vice-versa, in a virtuous loop. This policy orientation and governance approach leverages innovative technologies such as health pods that could allow access for all to health services, long-term care, health promotion, and disease prevention provided by a sustainable health system. In conclusion, there is a need for a co-creation of digital health models implementing a continuous pathway of care, and we strongly believe that health pods could play a strategic role in this field by filling the existing gap, thus promoting a continuous health path in which each subject could contribute both at a personal and a collective level. Health pods could act as distributed health monitoring stations, thus implementing a diffused point-of-care model that allows the citizen to obtain easy access to available biomedical technologies close to home. In this way, they can become active contributors to their health by keeping monitored their functional indexes in the main health risk domains, thus receiving dedicated and personalized services, including education and even more complex interventions. A properly developed UX design should support overcoming differences and inequalities in digital and health literacy. The COVID pandemic and its long-term COVID or post-COVID implications would increase the demand for similar approaches, in which the measured parameters could be adapted to the needed monitoring based on current technologies. G.A. produced the original draft and carried out the taxonomy definition, market survey, and data presentation; E.G.C. contributed to the paper aims' definition and data discussion; N.C. provided the clinical overview. All authors provided critical review, feedback, additions, further references, and guidance. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research received no external funding. Figure 6: Personalized protocols for prevention. Conflicts of Interest: [PERSON] received consulting fees for the design of the system and scientific advice for technological selection in measurements by CAPSULA srl.