Planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries

E-health in Rural Areas: Case of Developing Countries

The Application of e-health solutions has brought superb advancements in the health care industry. E-health solutions have already been embraced in the industrialized countries. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the healthcare industry by use of Information technology in different ways. Based on a technology assessment carried out i...

Oral health of poor people in rural areas of developing countries.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas

Rural entrepreneurship can be considered as one of the solutions to reduce poverty, migration and develop employment in rural environments. In this study, the necessity of sustainable entrepreneurship, the effective factors and the barriers to entrepreneurship in rural area will be described. In this regard, a model has been considered to create a sustainable rural entrepreneurship area by esta...

Mobile Community Information Systems on Wireless Mesh Networks - An Opportunity for Developing Countries and Rural Areas

Future ultra high-speed mobile information and communication technologies will only be successful, if the running applications based on low cost mobile network infrastructure are well developed. In the research cluster of UMIC project under German Excellence Initiatives, we examine scenarios for developing countries and rural areas where the traditional communication infrastructures are not wel...

e-Health for Rural Areas in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Sebokeng Experience

We report the experience gained in an e-Health project in the Gauteng province, in South Africa. A Proof-of-Concept of the project has been already installed in 3 clinics in the Sebokeng township. The project is now going to be applied to 300 clinics in the whole province. This extension of the Proof-of-Concept can however give rise to security flaws because of the inclusion of rural areas with...