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Title
Telemedicine and primary health: the virtual doctor project Zambia |
Full text
http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=21216 |
Date
2011 |
Author(s)
Mupela, Evans; Mustard, Paul; jones, Huw |
Abstract
This paper is a commentary on a project application of telemedicine to alleviate primary health care problems in Lundazi district in the Eastern province of Zambia. The project dubbed '"The Virtual Doctor Project' will use hard body vehicles fitted with satellite communication devices and modern medical equipment to deliver primary health care services to some of the neediest areas of the country. The relevance and importance of the project lies in the fact that these areas are hard-to-reach due to rugged natural terrain and have very limited telecommunications infrastructure. The lack of these and other basic services makes it difficult for medical personnel to settle in these areas, which leads to an acute shortage of medical personnel. The paper presents this problem and how it is addressed by 'The Virtual Doctor Project', emphasizing that while the telemedicine concept is not new in sub-Saharan Africa, the combination of mobility and connectivity to service a number of villages 'on the go' is an important variation in the shift back to the 1978 Alma Ata principles of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) |
Publisher
UNU-MERIT |
Type of publication
Research paper |
Format
application/pdf |
Source
UNU-MERIT working paper series: 2011-002, ISSN 1871-9872 ; vol.2011-002 |
Rights
UNU-MERIT, 2011 |
Repository
Maastricht - University of Maastricht
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