Role of modern technology in public health: opportunities and challenges.
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a Former Director, Department of Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. b Regional Adviser Emergency and Humanitarian Action, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India. # Personal Digital Assistants Correspondence to [email protected] During the past two decades, the world has seen profound changes in technology development, heralding an information age.1 As a result of the information and communication boom, a combination of new technologies is being used to obtain, disseminate and share information as never before. Moreover, social media has also become a powerful tool to share ideas and solutions in almost all spheres of daily life. This also offers great opportunities to bring about better health to populations at large in a different way. An important question however is: how can modern technology be deployed to improve quality of health delivery at a lower cost? What are the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead?
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- WHO South-East Asia journal of public health
دوره 1 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012