Telecommunications bring the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health care in the remotest areas of the developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for emergency medical assistance, long distance consultation, administration and logistics, supervision and quality assurance and education and training for health-care professionals and providers.
Telehealth in the Developing World aims to balance the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It is written for all e-health and telehealth proponents interested in learning about, or contributing to the implementation of, appropriate solutions for 80% of the world's population.
Topics featured include:
Teledermatology in Cambodia Telepediatrics in Chechnya Telepathology in India - using digital cameras and email HealthNet networks in Nepal Medical missions for Children in Mongolia International HIV/AIDS discussion lists The Aga Khan Telehealth Network in Pakistan Access to mobile phones and internet in the Philippines Exchanging X-ray images in Ghana Web-based oncology registries and a virtual oncology hospital in Brazil Surgical training in the developing world The iPath international email network
Edited by:
Richard Wootton,
Niv G Patil,
Richard E. Scott,
Kendall Ho
Imprint: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 621g
ISBN: 9781853157844
ISBN 10: 1853157848
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 February 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contributors Foreword Preface SECTION 1: BACKGROUND 1. Introduction - Richard Wootton, Kendall Ho, Nivritti G Patil and Richard E Scott SECTION 2: POLICY 2. Bridging the digital divide: Linking health and ICT policy - Joan Dzenowagis 3. Telemedicine in developing countries: Perspectives from the Philippines - Alvin B Marcelo 4. Information technology for primary health care in Brazil - Elaine Tomasi, Luiz A Facchini, Elaine ThumA (c), Maria FS Maia and Alessander Osorio 5. Community-based health workers in developing countries and the role of m-health - Adesina Iluyemi 6. Global e-health policy: From concept to strategy - Richard E Scott 7. Experiences and lessons learnt from telemedicine projects supported by the IDRC - Laurent Elder and Michael Clarke 8. Strategies to promote e-health and telemedicine activities in developing countries - Sisira Edirippulige, Rohana B Marasinghe, Vajira H W Dissanayake, Palitha Abeykoon and Richard Wootton SECTION 3: EDUCATIONAL 9. Telemedicine in low-resource settings: Experience with a telemedicine service for HIV/AIDS care - Maria Zolfo, Verena Renggli, Olivier Koole and Lut Lynen 10. Medical Missions for Children: A global telemedicine and teaching network - Philip O Ozuah and Marina Reznik 11. Telementoring in India: Experience with endocrine surgery - Saroj K Mishra, Puthen V Pradeep and Anjali Mishra SECTION 4: CLINICAL 12. Teledermatology in developing countries - Steven Kaddu, Carrie Kovarik, Gerald Gabler and H Peter Soyer 13. Cross-cultural telemedicine via email: Experience in Cambodia and the USA - Paul Heinzelmann, Rithy Chau, Daniel Liu and Joseph Kvedar 14. Telepathology and telecytology in developing countries - Sangeeta Desai 15. Internet-based store-and-forward telemedicine for subspecialty consultations in the Pacifi c region - C Becket Mahnke, Charles W Callahan and Donald A Person 16. Telehealth support for a global network of Italian hospitals - Gianfranco Costanzo and Paola Monari 17. Telemedicine in Nepal - Mohan R Pradhan 18. Telemedical support for surgeons in Ecuador - Stephen Cone, Edgar J Rodas and Ronald C Merrell 19. A low-cost international e-referral network - Richard Wootton, Pat Swinfen, Roger Swinfen and Peter Brooks 20. Telehealth in China: Opportunities and challenges - Jie Chen and Zhiyuan Xia 21. Telemedicine in South Africa - Maurice Mars 22. Telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa - Maurice Mars 23. Telehealth for mountainous and remote areas of northern Pakistan - Hameed A Khan and Irfan Hayee 24. Teleneurology: Past, present and future - Usha K Misra and Jayantee Kalita 25. Telepaediatric support for a fi eld hospital in Chechnya - Boris A Kobrinskiy and Vladimir I Petlakh 26. Web-based paediatric oncology information and registries: An international perspective - AndrA (c) Nebel de Mello 27. E-health in international networks: New opportunities for collaboration - Shariq Khoja and Azra Naseem SECTION 5: THE FUTURE 28. The future use of telehealth in the developing world - Richard Wootton Index
Richard Wootton, Director of Research and Head of the Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, AustraliaNiv G. Patil, Professor in Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education & Student Affairs), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaRichard E. Scott, Associate Professor at the Global e-Health Research and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre, and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, CanadaKendall Ho, Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean, Division of Continuing Professional Development & Knowledge Translation, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, and eHealth consultant, Ministry of Health, Government of British Columbia, Canada
Reviews for Telehealth in the Developing World
Telehealth in the Developing World presents a comprehensive analysis of telemedicine systems and applications for providing education, medical care and consultations worldwide. Chapters covering current applications will be extraordinarily valuable to programs considering establishing a telemedicine framework to provide outside consultation or to develop in-country expertise through health worker training. This book will serve equally well as a resource for students of public health, public policy, and global medicine as it will for practitioners in the field and for programs developing capacity internationally. -- Rebecca S. Kightlinger, DO Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Virginia School of Medicine, June 2009
