Education, knowledge and technology
Plenary
- Tomorrow's health systems: in phase with reality?
- Research and training for health: seeds for the future
Parallel sessions
- Oncology: only for the rich?
- Strengthening national health information systems
- ICT in support of health workers
- Health knowledge at the age of web 2.0
Recommended readings
- Improving health, connecting people: the role of ICTs in the health sector of developing countries - a framework paper
- ( A. Chetley; J. Davies; B.| Trude / Infodev , 2006)
- Recommended reading
- This paper, published by Information for Development (infodev), looks at information and communication technology (ICT) interventions in the health sector in developing countries. It argues that ICTs...
- Integrating equity into health information systems: a human rights approach to health and information
- ( L. Bambas / Public Library of Science Medicine , 2005)
- This PLoS medicine article argues that health information systems can play an important role in supporting human rights. Firstly, health information systems can document and track health and health in...
- Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?
- ( F. Godlee; N. Pakenham-Walsh; D. Ncayiyana; B. Cohen / The Lancet , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This article highlights the lack of progress over the last 10 years in increasing levels of access by health professionals in developing countries to essential health care information. It goes on to o...
