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Telemedicine and mobile health with integrative medicine in developing countries
2014
Health Policy and Technology
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This is indeed a fresh angle, as information and communication technologies (ICTs) could play an important role in developing countries in the management of patients and enhance quality care for patients ...
African Home-based Care (AHC) and African Traditional Medicine (ATM) provide a number of self-sustainable primary health care workers in a rural region with the appreciation of ancestral knowledge and ...
A recent report of the World Bank has classified mHealth initiatives in developing countries into the seven distinct categories described in Table 1 . ...
doi:10.1016/j.hlpt.2014.08.008
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Contextual Barriers to Mobile Health Technology in African Countries: A Perspective Piece
2015
Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine
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Cognitive dimensions do play an integral role in the use of mHealth technologies in developing countries as it is reported that such regions face education limitations (computer illiteracy) and a lack ...
The application of mobile IT within a medical context, referred to as mobile health or mHealth, has revolutionised the delivery of healthcare services as mobile technologies offer the potential of retrieving ...
doi:10.7309/jmtm.4.1.7
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Position Paper: Researching and Developing Open Architectures for National Health Information Systems in Developing African Countries
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2012
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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health architectures for developing African countries. ...
In this paper we describe these three initiatives and the expected impact on implementing health information systems in developing African countries. ...
Acknowledgements The HEAL project is funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation (Establishing a Health Enterprise Architecture Lab, a research laboratory focused on the application of enterprise ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32355-3_8
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Strengthening and expanding the capacity of health worker education in Zambia
2017
The Pan African Medical Journal
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The program also facilitated transforming of the academic environment into a more conducive work place through strengthening the Staff Development program and support towards research activities. ...
Furthermore, the MEPI program improved the capacity and quality of training by facilitating installation and integration of new technology such as the eGranary digital library, E-learning methods and clinical ...
Acknowledgments We would like to thank the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), the Office of the U.S. ...
doi:10.11604/pamj.2017.27.92.6860
pmid:28819513
pmcid:PMC5554665
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The fusion of modern and indigenous science and technology: how should it be done?
2006
African Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics and Sciences
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In this paper, the benefits of integrating community science and technology with school science and technology and the constraints to the integration have been outlined. ...
SACOST is a centre of excellence established by the African Forum for Children's Literary in Science (AFCLIST), a non-governmental organization. ...
not of immediate relevance to the needs of the developing world, including African countries. ...
doi:10.4314/ajesms.v2i1.38587
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Could telemedicine enhance traditional medicine practices?
2014
European Research in Telemedicine
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Disclosure of interest The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest concerning this article. ...
Specifically, the development of mobile telemedicine could help to lay the foundations of a healthcare approach integrating modern medical knowledge with ancient medical practices on the African continent ...
KEYWORDS Telemedicine; Mobile health; Complementary medicine; Therapeutic education; Integrated health center; Developing countries Summary In developing countries, telemedicine and mobile health tools ...
doi:10.1016/j.eurtel.2014.08.001
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Has translational genomics come of age in Africa?
2021
Human Molecular Genetics
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The rapid increase in genomics research in Africa and the growing promise of precision public health begs the question of whether African genomics has come of age and is being translated into improved ...
There is a strong nucleus of determined and optimistic clinicians and scientists with a clear vision, and there is hope for innovative solutions and technological leapfrogging. ...
Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the time and attention of medical geneticists in African countries in the north, west, east and south, who generously shared their knowledge and expertise during ...
doi:10.1093/hmg/ddab180
pmid:34240178
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Editorial: Improving mental health systems in Africa
2013
African Journal of Psychiatry
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There are a multitude of competing areas that need adequate resources, such as education, safety and security, justice, public transport, infrastructure and social services. 1 Each country requires a rational ...
This article simply aims to provide points of departure for discussion and debate, and some possible ways forward -without losing sight of country-specific issues. ...
Integration The concept of integration operates at two levels: that of the patient into their community and that of the patient into the health system. ...
doi:10.4314/ajpsy.v16i6.50
pmid:24173628
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Engineering, global health, and inclusive innovation: focus on partnership, system strengthening, and local impact for SDGs
2016
Global Health Action
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The recent drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals challenges the research community to rethink the traditional approach to global health and provides the opportunity for science, technology, engineering ...
Global health research informs sustainable development, and through integrating engineering into research efforts through university partnerships, we can accelerate progress and work towards a healthier ...
Conflict of interest and funding The authors would like to acknowledge generous support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for their support of the Partnership for Global Health Technologies Program ...
doi:10.3402/gha.v9.30175
pmid:26790462
pmcid:PMC4720687
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The value of China-Africa health development initiatives in strengthening "One Health" strategy
2017
Global Health Journal
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Implementing national to community-based "One Health" strategy for human, animal and environmental challenges and migrating-led consequences offer great opportunities, and its value of sustained development ...
Building the value of China-Africa "One Health" strategy partnerships, frameworks and capacity development and implementation through leveraging on current and innovative China-Africa health initiatives ...
Availability of data and materials Data are freely available and accessible.
Competing interests The authors have no conflict of interests. ...
doi:10.1016/s2414-6447(19)30062-4
pmid:32373395
pmcid:PMC7148675
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The AU/NEPAD Peace and Security Governance in Africa
2017
Otoritas: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan
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African Union was established for the purpose of solving such problems in order to sustain a peaceful African environment. ...
The main objective of the paper is to draw the role of the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) in assisting the African countries in resolving the conflicts which ...
A secured environment is one that can attract both people and development alongside. ...
doi:10.26618/ojip.v7i2.825
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Research on Sustainability of China's Economic Cooperation With Africa
2020
International Relations and Diplomacy
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sustainable development of China's economic cooperation with Africa focusing on connectivity and integrating African characteristic. ...
Africa is one of the important polars in the current political and economic pattern of the world. ...
in Africa, and seriously undermined the development momentum of African countries. (7) Development hits a bottleneck. ...
doi:10.17265/2328-2134/2020.08.003
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Experiences of African Students in Predominantly White Institutions: A Literature Overview
2016
Nursing Research and Practice
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The objective of this paper is to examine research conducted on the experiences of African health sciences students in predominantly white higher education institutions/environments. ...
The main elements of cross-cultural adaptation models were adopted to discuss the amalgamated themes under the auspices of adjustment, integration, and conditioning. ...
Introduction Experiencing life in developed countries such as the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia is often an aspirational dream for many people born in developing countries ...
doi:10.1155/2016/5703015
pmid:27525115
pmcid:PMC4971327
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So far and yet so near?
1996
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
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Developments in computer and communication technologies over the past ten years aptly support the use of the term global village to describe the present worldwide provision and distribution of information ...
Librarians in Africa are establishing the basic tools and organizational structures to enable them to work together; however, a fundamental issue of attaching sufficient importance to the provision of ...
There is a fundamental difference in the environment for the practice of networking in developed and developing countries [3] . ...
pmid:8938337
pmcid:PMC226132
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A framework for selecting analytics tools to improve healthcare big data usefulness in developing countries
2020
South African Journal of Information Management
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In many developing countries including South Africa, there are challenges in understanding how the different networks of patients, diagnoses, and medical personnel are formed, as well as the types of big ...
Some of the challenges manifest into different factors such as inaccuracy of data, inconsistency, incompleteness of data, and lack of cohesion. ...
Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the members of his research forum and the Department of Information Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, for the assistance ...
doi:10.4102/sajim.v22i1.1117
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