Appropriate healthcare technologies for low resource settings: use of m-technology in rural health care and education

The use of m-phones is rapidly spreading worldwide, reaching also the most isolated and socially marginalised communities. The opportunities it offers in public health are increasingly described in literature, however its potential in the training of, and support to local health workers has been onl...

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Published inAppropriate Healthcare Technologies for Low Resource Settings (AHT 2014) p. 2
Main Authors Bellina, L, Missoni, E, Azzolina, G, Nucatola, I, Maggio, A, Consiglio, F, Ingrassia, R, Vitrano, F, Scarpinato, D, Carrabino, R
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Stevenage, UK IET 2014
The Institution of Engineering & Technology
Subjects
Biology and medical computing
Biomedical measurement and imaging
Education and training
Educational aids
Microcomputers
Mobile radio systems
Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation
Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
low resource settings
m-phones
biomedical education
mobile diagnosis
smart phones
training
mobile computing
m-technology
rural health care-education
local health-workers
local health workers
active learning approaches
medical computing
healthcare technology
health care
patient diagnosis
public health
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Summary:The use of m-phones is rapidly spreading worldwide, reaching also the most isolated and socially marginalised communities. The opportunities it offers in public health are increasingly described in literature, however its potential in the training of, and support to local health workers has been only partially explored, less so its use in combination with innovative active learning approaches. The MobileDiagnosis experience shows that m-phones may be considered as an appropriate technology to educate, empower and mentoring local healthworkers, enabling team-work and collaboration among peers, contributing to improved health care quality locally, and making knowledge and experience widely accessible and shared globally. The m-phone is just a tool, its potential for the Common Good depends on the use we make of it, on our imagination and creativity. Our approach and experience is but a very small attempt to use it as a tool of liberating education.
ISBN:1849199159
9781849199155
DOI:10.1049/cp.2014.0762