Information and Communications Technology–Based Interventions Targeting Patient Empowerment: Framework Development

Information is the key to patient empowerment.

Mr. Kane's paper examines the role of patients to ensure that they have both the knowledge and power to direct their health care choices. The evolving health care market place is discussed to emphasize the increased importance of individual involvement in health decision making. A checklist sets forth questions which a patient should ask of herself and of her provider before entering into healt...

Effectiveness of Web-based interventions on Patient Empowerment: systematic review

The Impacts of Community Driven Development Interventions on Women’s Empowerment

1. This proposed Learning Product will review existing evidence of the impacts of community driven development (CDD) on women’s empowerment. It will analyze findings of World Bank Group-supported interventions in countries that have shown commitment to the community driven development approach (that is, have implemented more than one isolated project). It will also draw from the findings of sev...

Information Communications Technology for Development

This Essentials is a practical introduction to the complex area of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICTD). The use of Information Communications Technologies in development programming is not new. However, in 2000 they assumed a new prominence, when the United Nations and G8 group of industrialized countries flagged ICTD as a global development priority. Since then, ...

Information and Communications Technologies for Economic Development