Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "developing countries"
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Feasibility of a Clearing House for Improved Cooperation Between Telemedicine Networks Delivering Humanitarian Services: Acceptability to Network Coordinators
(Co-Action Publishing, 2012)Background: Telemedicine networks, which deliver humanitarian services, sometimes need to share expertise to find particular experts in other networks. It has been suggested that a mechanism for sharing expertise between ... -
Prevalence of Undiagnosed Hypoxemia in Adults and Children in an Under-Resourced District Hospital in Zambia
(Springer-Verlag, 2010)Background: In adequately resourced clinical environments, diagnosis of hypoxemia via pulse oximetry is routine. Unfortunately, pulse oximetry is rarely utilized in under-resourced hospitals in developing countries. Aim: ... -
Scaling up cancer care for children without medical insurance in developing countries: The case of Mexico
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012)Background: In 2006, the Mexican government launched the Fund for Protection Against Catastrophic Expenditures (FPGC) to support financially healthcare of high cost illnesses. This study aimed at answering the question ... -
A Successful US Academic Collaborative Supporting Medical Education in a Postconflict Setting
(SAGE Publications, 2014)This article describes a model employed by the Academic Collaborative to Support Medical Education in Liberia to augment medical education in a postconflict setting where the health and educational structures and funding ... -
Who’s Not Coming to Dinner? Evaluating Trends in Online Restaurant Reservations for Outbreak Surveillance
(University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2013)Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate whether trends in online restaurant table reservations can be used as an early indicator for a disease outbreak. Introduction: Epidemiologists, public health agencies ... -
Young professionals for health development: the Kenyan experience in combating non-communicable diseases
(Co-Action Publishing, 2013)Young individuals (below 35 years) comprise an estimated 60% of the global population. Not only are these individuals currently experiencing chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), either living with or at risk for these ...