Spreading access to healthcare information internationally

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Published: 10 Jun 2010
Author: Graham Clews

The CSP has signed up to a campaign to ensure everyone in the world has access to an informed healthcare provider by 2015.

'Healthcare information for All by 2015' is seeking to tackle an urgent need to improve the availability and use of healthcare information in developing countries.

Through two internet forums and the creation of an online knowledge base, HIFA2015 brings together providers of healthcare information and those who use it.

Thousand CSP members working overseas targeted

CSP international development adviser Liz Carrington said there were more than 1,000 CSP members working abroad, and she hoped that the Society's support for HIFA2015 would encourage those members to work with the campaign.

'Many of our members working abroad are in rural areas, and it is difficult for them to access information to make a difference on the ground,' she said.

Mobile phone technology

'One idea is that mobile phone technology could be used to provide information away from urban areas, for instance.'

 

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