The Drum Beat 271: The Digital Pulse - II
This issue of The Drum Beat features the 60 programme experiences included within "The Digital Pulse: The Current & Future Applications of Information & Communication Technologies for Developmental Health Priorities" (Chapter 3). The previous issue featured the analysis papers and health status trends included in this online publication. It can be accessed by clicking here Please let us know what you think - contact Warren Feek wfeek@comminit.com
The material cited in this issue was produced by The CI staff in support of work by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to strengthen its ICT for Health initiatives. Opinions expressed are personal to authors and do not reflect policies of CIDA or The CI.
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The Digital Pulse: The Current and Future Applications of Information and Communication Technologies for Developmental Health Priorities
by Warren Feek of The Communication Initiative
with substantial support and guidance from Greg Long, Independent Consultant
Click here for the Table of Contents.
Click here to download a full PDF version [217pps].
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CHAPTER 3
Programme Experiences: 60 Case Studies of ICT Usage in Developmental Health
These have been organised according to the nature of the programme intervention: Database and Resource Centres; Social Development, Education & Advocacy; Networking & Dialogue; and, Telemedicine & High Medical Tools. Please see sections below.
There is also a Topic Search Index Chart that organises these same experiences by different strategies and communication technologies. Please click here - [PDF: page numbers refer to the complete PDF document]
Section 1: Data Bases & Resource Centres
1.Communications for Better Health (CBH) Programme
An issue-oriented, not for profit, non-governmental organisation committed to assisting Ghanaians to achieve better health through the design and implementation of creative solutions and interventions to local health problems using community based resources. CBH is initiated within a hospital setting, university, or medical library. Ghana was the site of the pilot CBH project and developed into two streams. The first is the medical publication, the Ghana Health Digest. In the second stream, local databases are created by indigenous health professionals and other interested parties, who, working together, select information from international resources and from in-country or regional colleagues....
2.AIDS Documentation & Information Centre (Centro de Documentación e Información en SIDA) - Honduras
Established with the purpose to promote dialogue and act on the health problems of the Honduran population, Fundación Fomento en Salud (FFS) is the linkage between the implementing and cooperating sectors for strengthening technical, funding, and managerial capabilities of public and private organisations. The centre aims to collect and disseminate information and materials related to prevention and safer lifestyles and to train involved NGOs in the use of services and sources....
3.AIDS Resource Center (ARC) - Ethiopia
4.Health Informatics Section (HIS)
5.Disability Information System
6.eTALC
7.Internet Pathology Suite (iPath)
8.Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa / Atlas du Risque de la Malaria en Afrique (MARA/ARMA)
9.Malaria: An Online Resource & CDROM
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Section 2: Social Development, Education and Advocacy
11.Healthy Russia 2020
A 5-year programme using networking and web-based efforts to help Russian institutions improve the health of their people. The central strategy involves helping Russian health-related organisations, young people, and other key groups, by creating a new non-governmental health advocacy organisation. Organisers will help this new umbrella organisation promote healthy behaviours by fostering the creation of a Healthy Russia 2020 web portal....
12."Keep Your Head, Wear Your Helmet" Campaign
A public road safety awareness campaign to promote the wearing of helmets among riders of two-wheeled motorbikes in Bangalore. The advocacy campaign relied on the Internet to create awareness, increase interaction, and foster behaviour change....
13.OneWorld Radio AIDS Network
15.Internet-Based Tobacco Control Network - Czech Republic
16.Treat Your Workers Campaign
18.AIDSMark
21.Positive Lives, Positive Responses to HIV
22.Oral Rehydration Therapy Awareness Programme - India
27.The Massive Effort Campaign
28.Chhattisgarh Online information for Citizen Empowerment (CHOiCE) Project
30.The Chevron Workplace AIDS Prevention Programme (CWAPP) - Nigeria
31.AIDS Prevention Software Projects - Thailand
32.Young Adult Reproductive Health (YARH) Project - Nigeria
33.Freedom from Tobacco - India
35.AIDS Prevention & Control Project in Tiruchy City
38.Health e-News - South Africa
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PULSE POLL
If you are journalist then you are a development communicator.
[For context, please see The Drum Beat 265]
Do you agree or disagree?
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Section 3: Networking and Dialogue Tools
39.Education & Health Promotion Programme - Nigeria
Utilises Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to foster the exchange of information about, and to improve the provision of, health care among rural community health workers in Nigeria (most of whom are women) as well as adolescents....
40.YouthLIFE - Botswana, Nigeria & South Africa
A 3-year initiative called Youth Leadership in Fighting the Epidemic (YouthLIFE) working to build youth leadership capacity in the area of youth-specific HIV/AIDS prevention interventions and advocacy....
41.EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health (RHI) in Asia
42.Electronic Discussion Boards (HDN)
43.Regional HIV/AIDS Information Network (RHAIN)
45.Philippine Health Social Science Association - Philippines
46.Women Connect! - Eastern & Southern Africa
47.Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) - Nigeria
49.Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) - Uganda
50.NABUUR
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Section 4: Telemedicine and High-Tech Medical Tools
52.The Telemedicine TeleInViVo Initiative - Uganda
Involves the establishment of transportable telemedicine workstations (PC computers with telecommunication capabilities) that are connected to light, portable ultrasound stations. These devices, to be used initially as a telemedical device at Nakaseke Hospital and Mulago Hospital, are intended to foster communication between physicians who specialise in certain diseases and physicians who work in the isolated rural areas of Uganda....
53.Satellife's PDA Health Information Project - Ghana, Kenya & Uganda
In this project hand-held computers, also called personal digital assistants (PDAs), are used to help medical personnel in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda gain access to accurate and up-to-date information. This technology was also intended to help health professionals conduct surveys and analyse data more efficiently....
54.Tygerberg Children's Hospital & Rotary Telemedicine Project - South Africa
55.The Compliance Service - South Africa
56.CERTI - Telemedicine project - Brazil
57.Queensland Ultrasound Project - Australia
59.Telerehab RERC - South Pacific
60.National Telemedicine Research Centre - South Africa
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