Edited by Richard Wootton Director of Research and Head of the Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, Australia Niv Patil Professor in Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education & Student Affairs), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China Richard Scott Associate Professor at the Global e-Health Research and Training Program, Health Innovation and Information Technology Centre, and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada Kendall Ho Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean, Division of Continuing Professional Development & Knowledge Translation, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada £29.95,  978-1-85315-784-4,  318pp,  Paperback,  February 2009

Rebecca S. Kightlinger, DO Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Virginia School of Medicine, June 2009
Telehealth in the Developing World presents a comprehensive analysis of telemedicine systems and applications for providing education, medical care and consultations worldwide. Chapters covering current applications will be extraordinarily valuable to programs considering establishing a telemedicine framework to provide outside consultation or to develop in-country expertise through health worker training. This book will serve equally well as a resource for students of public health, public policy, and global medicine as it will for practitioners in the field and for programs developing capacity internationally.

Telecommunications bring the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health care in the remotest areas of the developing world. Telemedicine offers solutions for emergency medical assistance, long distance consultation, administration and logistics, supervision and quality assurance and education and training for health-care professionals and providers.

A new addition to the successful telehealth series published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press, Telehealth in the Developing World aims to balance the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It is written for all e-health and telehealth proponents interested in learning about, or contributing to the implementation of, appropriate solutions for 80% of the world's population.

Topics featured include: • Teledermatology in Cambodia • Telepediatrics in Chechnya • Telepathology in India – using digital cameras and email • HealthNet networks in Nepal • Medical missions for Children in Mongolia • International HIV/AIDS discussion lists • The Aga Khan Telehealth Network in Pakistan • Access to mobile phones and internet in the Philippines • Exchanging X-ray images in Ghana • Web-based oncology registries and a virtual oncology hospital in Brazil • Surgical training in the developing world • The iPath international email network

RSM Press E Health & Telemedicine Titles
RSM Press Tropical Medicine Titles

Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
1 Wimpole Street
London W1G 0AE
UK

Tel +44 (0)20 7290 2921
Fax +44 (0)20 7290 2929

Company Number : 01572720
publishing@rsm.ac.uk

Journal subscriptions: sales@portland-services.com

Privacy Policy