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The relevance of microcomputers to health improvement in developing countries

โœ Scribed by Aziz El-Kholy; Salah Mandil

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
599 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-7206

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โœฆ Synopsis

The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and are based on observations, findings and conclusions drawn from a joint WHO-Egypt study in support of that part of the 5-year health plan of the Ministry of Health of Egypt which dealt with the strengthening of health information sytems for the management of health resources. The joint study included the actual pilot operation in two Egyptian provinces -Fayoum and South Cairo -of microcomputer-supported health data collection, validation, processing, printing and distribution, from and to users.

Sections 2 and 3 briefly discuss how current and foreseen developments in the medical approaches to many of the major health problems in the developing countries appear to coincide with tremendous breakthroughs in the information technology (Section 6) which in turn contribute to alleviating many of the impediments to the two-way process of information collection, processing, printing and distribution. Section 7 briefly discusses the loaded techno-political issue of micro-informatics technology transfer, and how (Section 8) an international effort could assist in this respect.

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