BACKGROUND End-of-life (EOL) communication plays a critical role in ensuring that patients receive care concordant with their wishes and experience high quality of life. As the baby boomer population ages, scalable models of end-of-life communication will be needed to ensure that patients receive appropriate care. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) may help address the needs of t...

background and purpose: the internet is a useful tool for developing a variety of learning experiences and as a source of information and as a means of facilitated communication between students and teachers. the aim of this research was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of the internet use among bachelors’ degree students in shahid beheshti school of health . method...

1 The author would like to thank Rabia Koseoglu and Seydi Sahin in assisting with part of the literature review. Abstract: Several influential people in the popular and academic discourse, especially since the heyday of the Internet boom years, have claimed the arrival of a digital world. A world in which there is universal access to the technologies of and information from the Internet. This a...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. Obviously, access and application of ICT will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. This will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. In Iran, importance of using rural ICT benefits and advantage...

The trajectory of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) over the past decade has been one of rapid emergence and diffusion in some countries mirrored by broadening inequality in access to these technologies for most of the world's population. The UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) aims to take stock of what has been achieved globally to bridge this gap and to facilita...

The rapid advancement in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has given rise to new applications that were impossible just few years ago. Agriculture is an important sector with the majority of the rural population in developing countries depending on it. ICT or Information and Communications Technology in simple terms, can be defined as the basket of technologies, which assist or...