E-health: A Health Promotion Tool for Brazilian Amazon Region

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to describe the e-health activities of Project USP in Rondônia to promote health into the Amazonian Brazilian State Rondônia in different types of educational resources.Methods: Population of Monte Negro county was reached by the e-health promotion activities including tele-education for community health workers, teachers and local health professionals with the videoconferencing, CD-ROM development and Cybertutor technologies. The population reached was calculated by the reach of these professionals into their daily activities. Results:The e-health activities held by Project USP in Rondônia are reaching local stakeholders to expand the spread of health knowledge within a region with severe difficulties of access to information and health care. These stakeholders, mainly working locally in the educational and auxiliary health professions, are seizing their opportunity to provoke autonomy in the population they work with, disseminating information among children in public schools and health care, possibly reaching more than 1,380 families.Conclusion: E-health activities showed to be important tool for health promotion to Amazonian communities. People living in regions with difficult access to many social needs, such as riverside communities, must be respected as citizens and thus their right to health must be ensured, which is provided in the Brazilian constitution, and it should be promoted through education, prevention and adequate health services.

Stakeholders’ qualitative perspectives of effective telepractice pedagogy in speech–language pathology

“…In Brazil, SLP/SLT academic programmes at the University of Sao Paulo and Monte Negro include telepractice training for their students (Bastos et al . , Silva et al . ), and even though there is currently no systematic workforce telepractice training in Australia, recommendations to the government for infrastructure and policy changes (Theodoros ) would support such student training.…”

“…In the United States and its territories, 36-41% of SLP/SLT academic training programmes teach telepractice applications, and an additional 39% have plans for such instruction (Grogan-Johnson et al 2015). In Brazil, SLP/SLT academic programmes at the University of Sao Paulo and Monte Negro include telepractice training for their students (Bastos et al 2012, Silva et al 2011, and even though there is currently no systematic workforce telepractice training in Australia, recommendations to the government for infrastructure and policy changes (Theodoros 2014) would support such student training.…”