Dear Catherine and all,
"This article about global sharing of information is interesting.
Not only is it the availability of computers and good internet
connections for researchers and clinicians in developing countries, it is
also the restricted ability to participate in the global
conversation."
I would like to invite you and others to join a dynamic and growing,
global conversation on this subject:
HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015) is a global campaign
working for a future where people are no longer dying for lack of basic
healthcare knowledge. More than 8000 HIFA members in 167 countries
interact on 5 global email forums (HIFA Global Forums): HIFA2015;
CHILD2015 (collaboration with International Child Health Group of the
RCPCH and ISSOP); HIFA2015-Portuguese (collaboration with WHO);
HIFA-EVIPNet-French (collaboration with WHO); and HIFA-Zambia
(collaboration with Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance). HIFA2015 is
supported by more than 150 health and development organisations.
www.hifa2015.org
We use email as the primary basis for the forum (similar to the
Evidence-Based Health forum), and we are finding that primary healthcare
providers in rural areas of low-income countries are increasingly able to
join us. Also, Google has set up a free service whereby people using the
most basic mobile phones (SMS) without internet are now able, in some
countries in Africa, to send and receive email (they pay only the cost of
sending a text SMS, which is minimal).
I would also like to recommend another forum called the Health and
Literacy Discussion List
http://lincs.ed.gov/mailman/listinfo/healthliteracy
This is primarily North America focused, but is also
international.
Meanwhile, I invite you and others with an interest in EBH and/or Health
Literacy in developikng countries, to join the conversation: got to
www.hifa2015.org
and click on Join.
Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh MB,BS, DCH, DRCOG
Coordinator, HIFA2015 and CHILD2015
Co-director, Global Healthcare Information Network
Chair, Dgroups Foundation
Corner House, Market St
Charlbury, Oxfordshire OX7 3PN, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811899
Email:
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HIFA2015:
http://www.hifa2015.org
Skype: neilpw1
Follow us on Twitter:
twitter.com/hifa2015
Join HIFA2015, CHILD2015, HIFA-Portuguese,
HIFA-EVIPNet-French, HIFA-Zambia:
www.hifa2015.org
"Healthcare Information For All by 2015: By 2015, every person
worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider"
With thanks to our 2012 Financial
Supporting Organisations: British Medical Association (main funder),
Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, Commonwealth Nurses Federation,
European Association of Senior Hospital Physicians (AEMH), European
Federation of Salaried Doctors (FEMS), Global Health Media Project, Haiti
Nursing Foundation, International Child Health Group (Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health), International Clinical Epidemiology
Network, Joanna Briggs Institute, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, Mother and Child Health and Education Trust, Network for
Information and Digital Access, Partnerships in Health Information,
Public Library of Science, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of
Nursing, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative.
At 02:39 13/09/2012, you wrote:
Hi Amy
I'm interested in access to health information from a pt health literacy
perspective. There is some research in this area, mostly in
well-developed countries. It isn't a well understood area.
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This article about global sharing of information is interesting. Not only
is it the availability of computers and good internet connections for
researchers and clinicians in developing countries, it is also the
restricted ability to participate in the global conversation.
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Catherine