The role of teleconferences in global public health education

Pinzon-Perez, Helda; Zelinski, Christy

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“…Videoconferences are essential components of telemedicine and enable health care workers to do remote examinations of the patient's condition and share relevant information concurrently without making direct interaction, subsequently preventing the spread of SARS-Cov-2. 16,30 An MTS was used to avoid coronavirus transmission and assist case discussions among health professionals. 24 Telehealth technologies can connect a patient's medical care team and self-care routines.…”

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“…Telemedicine is a vital aid to give access to health care services to people living in remote areas during pandemics of COVID-19. 16 Khairat et al conducted a cohort study and analyzed COVID-19-like symptoms of virtual visits of patients through phone or video calls before confirmed cases of COVID-19 to compare the results with the confirmed COVID-19 cases. In February before any confirmed cases, the authors were able to identify 57.3% of COVID-19-like cases in areas that have a high number of people and where cases are in proximity to airports.…”

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Applications of e-Health to Support Person-Centered Health Care at the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Tebeje

Klein

2021

Telemedicine and e-Health

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Background: Many e-health services were launched after countries relaxed their telehealth regulations to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. e-Health technologies that support person-centered health care are crucial for the patient's needs. In this systematic review, we examined how e-health applications are used to support person-centered health care at the time of COVID-19. Methodology: Literature was systematically searched without language restriction and publication status between January 1 and May 25, 2020, to describe e-health's support on the person-centered health care to control the COVID-19 pandemic. PubMed, ScienceDirect, and CINAHL, MedRxiv, and Web of Science were used. Two researchers independently assessed the eligibility of each retrieved record. All included studies were subsequently rescreened by the researchers. The systematic review was conducted in accordance with preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines. Results: We identified 60 articles and selected 8 studies that met the inclusion criteria. Most of the studies used e-health technologies to facilitate clinical decision support and team care. Patient's engagement and access to health care from their homes were enhanced using telehealth and mobile health. Electronic health records were used to avail reliable data to health care providers and health authorities to make evidence-based decisions. Conclusion: Although there are limited studies to evaluate the effectiveness of e-health technologies for person-centered health care, the reviewed studies indicated e-health's potentials to improve the quality of health care and personalized health systems during COVID-19 pandemic. Further research should be done to better understand applications of e-health to improve the quality of health care and patients' outcomes and evaluate its cost-effectiveness.

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Section: E-health Supporting Team Care Measurement and Clinical Decmentioning

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Applications of e-Health to Support Person-Centered Health Care at the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Tebeje

Klein

2021

Telemedicine and e-Health

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“…The available learning resources and their capacity of innovation strongly influence the students' skills and performance. Thus, the use of teleconferences is presented as an effective and cost-effective option to prepare students through theoretical classes, or to exchange experiences with other students, although it does not completely replace the teacher's role [20,21].…”

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Global Health Education Programs in the Americas: A Scoping Review

Mendes

Ventura

Queiroz

et al. 2020

Annals of Global Health

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Introduction Global Health (GH) refers to issues that transcend borders and national governments, demanding actions from global powers, which determine the health of different communities [1]. It involves knowledge, teaching, practice, and research on extraterritorial health issues which extrapolate national geographic borders [2]. GH teaching involves integrated courses, which can be offered within social sciences, considering the transnational aspects of health issues [3, 4] while valuing the context and local capacity to act. In the Americas, the interest in GH as an academic discipline has increased in the last decade. This is due to the growing acknowledgement of GH as a fundamental issue in health training, enabling undergraduate and graduate students to better understand the global priority agenda and its demands [5]. Human resources are central aspects for the success of GH strategies; however, there is no consensus on how to plan experiential activities to prepare students to act locally and globally and to serve as global health professionals. Furthermore, cultural diversities in the Americas (North, Central, and South) enrich GH teaching and may become a challenge for the different actors involved in these processes. This study aims to analyse approaches, characteristics, and challenges faced by educational programs on global health in the Americas. Methods This is a scoping review, with the aim of mapping relevant scientific production and gaps on a specific theme, in this case, education of health professionals [6], following this sequence: 1) identifying the research question; 2) finding relevant studies; 3) selecting the studies; 4) organizing the data; and 5) collating, summarizing, and reporting the results, according to The Joanna Brigs Institute for Scoping Reviews. The search strategy used was PICo (P: problem/population; I: intervention; Co: context), in which P: educational programs on global health; I: approaches, characteristics, and challenges; Co: Americas. This resulted in the following research question: What are the approaches, characteristics, and challenges faced by educational programs on global health in the Americas? The inclusion criteria were: primary studies, full text available in Spanish, Portuguese, or English and published up to November 2017. Book chapters, Master's and doctoral final reports, as well as other technical reports were included in the initial search. Data collection took place between November 2017 and March 2018.

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“…National-, provincial-, and district-level officers conducted regular supportive supervisory visits for the various community informants to ensure that activities were being implemented as planned and to resolve challenges. The WHO Regional Office had regular teleconferences with countries, conducted field visits, and organized an annual review and planning meeting bringing together various stakeholders with objectives to foster program coordination and performance [11].…”

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Outcomes of the Deployment of the Auto-Visual Acute Flaccid Paralysis Detection and Reporting (AVADAR) System for Strengthening Polio Surveillance in Africa From 2017 to 2018: Evaluation Study

Ticha

Akpan

Paige

et al. 2020

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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Background As we move toward a polio-free world, the challenge for the polio program is to create an unrelenting focus on smaller areas where the virus is still present, where children are being repeatedly missed, where immunity levels are low, and where surveillance is weak. Objective This article aimed to describe a possible solution to address weak surveillance systems and document the outcomes of the deployment of the Auto-Visual Acute Flaccid Paralysis Detection and Reporting (AVADAR) project. Methods This intervention was implemented in 99 targeted high-risk districts with concerns for silent polio circulation from eight countries in Africa between August 1, 2017, and July 31, 2018. A total of 6954 persons (5390 community informants and 1564 health workers) were trained and equipped with a smartphone on which the AVADAR app was configured to allow community informants to send alerts on suspected acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) and allow health worker to use electronic checklists for investigation of such alerts. The AVADAR and Open Data Kit ONA servers were at the center of the entire process. A dashboard system and coordination teams for monitoring and supervision were put in place at all levels. Results Overall, 96.44% (24,142/25,032) of potential AFP case alerts were investigated by surveillance personnel, yielding 1414 true AFP cases. This number (n=1414) reported through AVADAR was higher than the 238 AFP cases expected during the study period in the AVADAR districts and the 491 true AFP cases reported by the traditional surveillance system. A total of 203 out of the 1414 true AFP cases reported were from special population settings, such as refugee camps and insecure areas. There was an improvement in reporting in silent health areas in all the countries using the AVADAR system. Finally, there were 23,473 reports for other diseases, such as measles, diarrhea, and cerebrospinal meningitis, using the AVADAR platform. Conclusions This article demonstrates the added value of AVADAR to rapidly improve surveillance sensitivity. AVADAR is capable of supporting countries to improve surveillance sensitivity within a short interval before and beyond polio-free certification.

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The role of teleconferences in global public health education

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

Applications of e-Health to Support Person-Centered Health Care at the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Applications of e-Health to Support Person-Centered Health Care at the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

Global Health Education Programs in the Americas: A Scoping Review

Outcomes of the Deployment of the Auto-Visual Acute Flaccid Paralysis Detection and Reporting (AVADAR) System for Strengthening Polio Surveillance in Africa From 2017 to 2018: Evaluation Study

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