Telemedicine: Health Care for Isolated Areas.

Institution	Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Development Communication.
Titel	Telemedicine: Health Care for Isolated Areas.
Quelle	In: Development Communication Report, (1977) 17, (8 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Clinics; Communications Satellites; Developing Nations; Development; Educational Development; Health Education; Health Facilities; Health Services; Medical Case Histories; Medical Services; Nutrition Instruction; Rural Areas; Rural Development; Rural Education; Rural Population; Telecommunications + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Entwicklung; Bildungsentwicklung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitszentrum; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Arzt; Nutrition education; Ernährungserziehung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Landbevölkerung; Telekommunikationstechnik
Abstract	The lead article discusses the results of a series of experiments in rural Alaska in which telemedicine was used to improve the delivery of health care to isolated populations. The author, Dennis Foote, also discusses the implications of these experiments for planning telemedicine systems in other areas. Satellite communication and a centralized computer based problem oriented medical record system played a major role in the project. A second article describes three educational endeavors in Tanzania: (1) Adult Education Year (1970); (2) Man is Health, a campaign designed to create an awareness of specific health problems among the rural population; and (3) Food is Life, a program to raise the level of functional literacy about the nutritional values of different foods. Also included are excerpts from a letter describing problems faced by a rural development communicator in India. (STS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01