Inflammatory Bowel Disease On-Line Web-Based Guide to Health Professionals and Patients in Developing and African Nations

• Published in: Japanese journal of gastroenterology and hepatology Vol. 3; no. 2
• Main Authors: Herman, A M, Hawkins, A T, James, S D, Ballard, B R, M'Koma, A E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan 2020
• Subjects: Inflammatory bowel disease; E-learning technology; Urbanization; Continued medical education; Curriculum; E-web-based learning; Environmental factors; Developing and african nations; Crohn’s disease; Ulcerative colitis
• ISSN: 2435-1210

1.1.Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is recklessly evolving worldwide as incautious disaster, especially in developing nations as a regional duplicitous emergence disease. It has come to light that adaptive Western culture, rapid urbanization lifestyle in the developing nations has been seen to be associated with this increasing trend incidence. Apparent unclassified strategic challenge assessment of how key trends and uncertainties might lead the world over the next decades to help developing nations and plan for the long term. Healthcare professionals are faced with limited resource and unequipped laboratories for IBD diagnostics, prognostics and monitoring management. Limited knowledge on IBD among developing nation's physician's/healthcare providers is painstaking and indisputable challenge. With the emergence of advanced communications technology, the internet offers diverse, substantial, easily accessible, and educational resources that are more time- and cost-efficient than conventional modes of knowledge acquisition. An On-Line Web-Based Resources about IBD, as a guide would greatly assist health professionals and patients. 1.2.We performed a literature search according to PRISMA-P (preferred reporting items for review and meta-analysis and searches in PubMed (MEDLINE database) to identify and select peer-reviewed articles allied to web-based educational accoutrements for IBD. 1.3.In developing nations, locally trained physicians have limited knowledge on IBD. Mostly, IBD is not included in their training Core Curriculum and research in this field/area is limited in these countries. The healthcare approaches, both at the primary care and referral levels, many times lack the essential regular clinical guidance and laboratory evaluation assessments needs for monitoring patients. Moreover, increasing treatment costs impose additional burden on the healthcare systems. Expensive pharmacological biosimilar and biologic agents/drugs, new treatment targets, and new quality indicators in patient health quality of life and care are significant challenge in addition to early manifestations of IBD are likely to be missed at most health institutions. 1.4.We herewith summarize an on-line web-based e-learning guide for IBD-related educational resources to assist physicians, healthcare personnel and patients worldwide, especially in the developing nations where the epidemiological monitoring studies are limited, due to a lack of medical surveillance systems and reliable and unified registries and databases.