Description
E-health, the application of information and communication technologies to the health sector, offers the potential for huge benefits for hard-pressed health services at the country level, but remains a topic about which there are still many more questions than answers.
The annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Book provides Health Ministers and senior officials in health ministries with a central source of information regarding current health priorities focused around the Millennium Development Goals.
Produced for the annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting, the 2008 edition is focused on e-health. With contributions from many of the world’s leading experts on e-health issues, this seminal publication also presents a number of unique country reviews of e-health initiatives from around the Commonwealth, unavailable elsewhere.
Published by Henley Media Group in association with the Commonwealth Secretariat.
A more recent version of this title is available.
Contents
Message of Welcome Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General
E-health
E-health’s Contribution to Sustainable Health Systems: Information and Knowledge are the Key S Yunkap Kwankam
Low Cost E-health Applications for Commonwealth Countries S Yunkap Kwankam
Telemedicine Support for the Developing World Professor Richard Wootton
Compelling Issues for Adoption of E-health Dr Roberto J Rodrigues
E-health Collaboration: The Map of Medicine and the WTO Craig Rhodes
E-Learning: Upgrading Nurses in Kenya Dr Peter Ngatia, Mrs Adesuwa and Martin M Kinyua
E-health: The Human Resources Implications Professor Dame June Clark DBE PhD RN FRCN and Professor Emeritus
‘Healthcomes’ and the Patient Experience: Improving Healthcare Through Information Technology Gary Morgan, Dr David Hansen and Professor Bruce Barraclough
Lessons Learned at the Telemedicine Coalface: Issues and Examples from Africa Professor Maurice Mars
The Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POLHN): Improving Access to Continuing Education for Health Workers in Pacific Island Countries Steven Baxendale
E-health Strategies in Health Development: Malaysia’s Experience Tan Sri Dato’Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman
E-health Programmes: The Enabling Environment in Uganda Dr Catherine Omaswa
Electronic Health Records in Canada: Addressing the Challenges, Reaping the Rewards Richard C Alvarez
A Survey of E-health Initiatives Across the Commonwealth Marie Boutillier
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
The Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Botswana
Canada
Cook Islands
Cyprus
The Gambia
Grenada
India
Jamaica
Malawi
Malta
Mozambique
New Zealand
Seychelles
Papua New Guinea
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sri Lanka
St Kitts and Nevis
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
United Kingdom
Vanuatu
Zambia
Commonwealth Health Priorities
Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in the Caribbean: Lessons Learned Sir George Alleyne and James Hospedales
How can Health Ministers Make an Impact on Maternal Deaths? Brigid McConville
Stopping Women Dying During Childbirth: How are the Commonwealth Countries Doing? Oona M R Campbell and Wendy J Graham
The Affordable Medicines Facility – Malaria: What do Policymakers need to know? Olusji Adeyi, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Alexandra Melby, Girindre Beeharry and Aizhan Imasheva
Sexual and Reproductive Health Challenges Facing Young People: Lessons from India Shireen J Jejeebhoy, KG Santhya, Rajib Acharya and Lea Hegg
Sex, Money and Ideas: Two Decades of Battling AIDS in India Prabhat Jha