Developing health information systems in developing countries: Lessons learnt from a longitudinal action research study in Vietnam

Networks of Action: Sustainable Health Information Systems Across Developing Countries

Our paper is motivated by one simple question: Why do so many action research efforts fail to persist over time? We approach this question, the problem of sustainability, building on a perspective on action research identifying the pivotal importance of networks. More precisely, local action research interventions need to be conceptualized and approached as but one element in a larger network o...

Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review

In this paper I review the Information Systems (IS) research on how developing countries have attempted to benefit from information and communication technologies. First I identify three discourses on IS implementation and associated organizational and social change that coexist in Information Systems in Developing Countries (ISDC) research, namely as a process of technology and knowledge trans...

Health Information Systems Implementation in Developing Countries: a Translation Process

This paper takes a look at the political issues involved in the implementation of health information system (HIS) in resource constrained countries. By doing a comparative case, we attempted to understand how two different implementation processes took shape in two countries – Tanzania and Vietnam using Actor network theory (ANT) as our analytica lens. The study suggests that by mobilizing an a...

Lessons from measles vaccination in developing countries.

Difficulties in reaching and sustaining high enough coverage combined with the need to delay vaccination until most infants have lost maternal antibodies make it hard to control measles with standard titres of measles vaccine. Maternal antibodies are no longer a factor in infants after 9 months in developing countries and after 15 months in developed countries. It would be good to have a vacc...

Depression in developing countries: lessons from Zimbabwe.