[Sigiii-l] [Fwd: FW: Book: Telehealth in the Developing World]

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*From:* Equity, Health & Human Development 
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*Subject:* [EQ] Telehealth in the Developing World

*TELEHEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
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Edited by
*Richard Wootton* Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth, 
Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), and 
Professor at the University of Aberdeen (UK).
*Nivritti G. Patil* Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education 
and Student Affairs) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the 
University of Hong Kong.
*Richard E. Scott* Associate Professor at the Global e-Health Research 
and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information Technology 
Centre, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 
University of Calgary (Canada).
*Kendall Ho* Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of 
the e-Health Strategy Office in the Faculty of Medicine at the 
University of British Columbia (Canada).

*Royal Society of Medicine Press/IDRC 2009
*ISBN 978-1-85315-784-4 - e-ISBN 978-1-55250-396-6 324 pp.

Available online at: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-136734-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html 
<http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-136734-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>
“ Health care is primarily about people-to-people interactions. It is 
about understanding, diagnosis, physical contact, communication, and, 
ultimately, providing care. By bringing people together, 
telecommunication technologies have 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 
healthcare professionals and providers.

This book aims to redress the relative lack of published information on 
successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It presents 
real-life stories from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.. ……….”

*CONTENTS
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Foreword — /Lord Crisp/
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. Telehealth 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 Thumé, Maria F.S. 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 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 US — /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 Pacific 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: opportunity 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 field hospital in Chechnya — /Boris A. 
Kobrisnkiy and Vladimir I. Petlakh/
26. Web-based paediatric oncology information and registries: an 
international perspective — /André 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/

*THE EDITORS*

*Richard Wootton* is Director of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth, 
Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), and 
Professor at the University of Aberdeen (UK).
*Nivritti G. Patil* is Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean 
(Education and Student Affairs) at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine 
of the University of Hong Kong.
*Richard E. Scott* is Associate Professor at the Global e-Health 
Research and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information 
Technology Centre, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of 
Medicine, University of Calgary (Canada).
*Kendall Ho* is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director 
of the e-Health Strategy Office in the Faculty of Medicine at the 
University of British Columbia (Canada).

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