Kamsu-Foguem, Bernard and Foguem, Clovis Telemedicine and mobile health with integrative medicine in developing countries. (2014) Health Policy and Technology, 3 (4). 264-271. ISSN 2211-8837
|
(Document in English)
PDF (Author's version) - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader 159kB |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2014.08.008
Abstract
African Home-based Care (AHC) and African Traditional Medicine (ATM) provide a number of self-sustainable primary health care workers in a rural region with the appreciation of ancestral knowledge and its contextual management. Even though most urban residents are able to afford and use conventional medicine to large extent, the implementations of modern medicine in rural areas and in poor peri-urban areas are limited. Our proposal is on how telemedicine solutions could enhance AHC and ATM practices and facilitate simultaneous delivery of both modern and traditional healthcare with evident added value to the recipients. This is indeed a fresh angle, as information and communication technologies (ICTs) could play an important role in developing countries in the management of patients and enhance quality care for patients in particular and healthcare (both traditional and modern heath systems) in general. This delivers comprehensive insights concerning the implementation on telemedicine where integrative medicine and African traditional medicine is in the back seat.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Additional Information: | Thanks to Elsevier editor. The definitive version is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com The original PDF of the article can be found at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211883714000550 |
HAL Id: | hal-01107237 |
Audience (journal): | International peer-reviewed journal |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | |
Institution: | Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE) Other partners > Université de Bourgogne - UB (FRANCE) |
Laboratory name: | |
Statistics: | download |
Deposited On: | 08 Jan 2015 17:08 |
Repository Staff Only: item control page