Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?

Can we achieve health information for all by 2015?

Universal access to information for health professionals is a prerequisite for meeting the Millennium Development Goals and achieving Health for All. However, despite the promises of the information revolution, and some successful initiatives, there is little if any evidence that the majority of health professionals in the developing world are any better informed than they were 10 years ago. La...

Universal and affordable health care: how can we achieve it?

I was watching a live TV broadcast of the US House of Representatives voting for the health care reform bill (Affordable Health Care for America Act) in a hotel room on November 7th when I was visiting Philadel-phia to participate in the annual meeting of the Ameri-can Public Health Association. The voting continued, despite it being late on a Saturday night. When the House passed the bill at a...

Towards Sustainability of Health Information Systems: How Can We Define, Measure and Achieve It?

Health information systems (HIS) in their current form are rarely sustainable. In order to sustain our health information systems and with it our health systems, we need to focus on defining and maintaining sustainable Health Information System building blocks or components. These components need to be easily updatable when clinical knowledge (or anything else) changes, easily adaptable when bu...

A charter to achieve health for all.

Risk assessment - can we achieve consensus?

OBJECTIVE The object of this conference paper was to review and discuss caries risk assessment in general practice from the questions i) 'Why', ii) 'When', and iii) 'How'. METHOD Narrative review. RESULTS i) Patient caries risk assessment is the basic component in the decision-making process for adequate prevention and management of dental caries and for determination of individual recall i...