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Bridging the digital divide in health United Nations Millennium Action Plan World Health Organization
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Bridging the digital divide in health
United Nations Millennium Action PlanWorld Health Organization
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Digital divide
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Developed 30 47 77 124 180 232
Developing 3 7 13 25 51 83
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Source: WHO presentation quoting ITU
Internet Penetration (million user)
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Internet Penetration (% of population)
284Developed Countries
1.60.1Developing Countries
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Source: WHO presentation quoting ITU
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Immense potential and interest in community
Internet access with doctors only 12 % in a backward district
Five times as many respondents had internet access at home as compared to those having access in office
Source: HIN survey March 2001, in seven districts covering 600 respondents:
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Health InterNetwork: Goals
Use internet technologies to strengthen public health services by:
l Better access to high quality informationl Easier consultation among decision makersl Faster data collection and deeper analysis
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Health InterNetwork: Cornerstones
l Relevant and authentic content via Internet
l Build Capacity of institutions that process information
l Connectivity
l Training to access and use information
Pilot sites
National Institutions- Control, treatment and research in TB
States: Karnataka; Orissa
Districts: Bangalore Rural, Deogarh
Sub District: Six CHC/ PHC in each pilot district
Libraries: NML ; Burla; Cuttack; RGUHS
New Processes for publishing and access to research
Providing authentic content:l National Health Information Collaborationl E-publishing of researchl Full text publishing of Medical Journalsl Consortia Initiatives for resource sharing
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National Health Information Collaboration (NHIC): (www.nhicindia.org)
Serve as a one Point source for authentic and relevant information
- collaborative model- content being uploaded by several institutions
authorized and personnel trained for the purpose- quality checks through content selection criteria- Keywords from MeSH- Records bear content providers stamp- Freeware for non-profit organizations
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NHIC- Content Categories:
28 Content Sub-Categories grouped in following 7 categories:
l Scientific Publicationsl Information Collections l Health IT Applications l Projects and Fundingl Education and Trainingl Statistical Datal Directories
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Content Publishing (Scientific Articles)
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Form
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Content Viewing (Information Collections)
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Resource Sharing - potential
INSDOC (Now NISCAIR)- 10,000 documents delivered in the best year
British Library Document Supply Center (part of BCL) supplied 37 lakhs documents in 2001-02
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Consortium for Enhanced Access to Research (CEAR)Enhance access to full text of international medical journals
by collaborating libraries using web technology.
TB: CEAR- four leading TB related research institutions has increased access by about 150% (from an average of 45 to 128 journals) (http://www.jccc-tbcear.informindia.co.in )
RGUHS: CEAR- 28 Medical Colleges have increased access from Average 80 to 650 Journals
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Access to Dissertations
l System and template for digitised submission of dissertations/thesis
l Web enabled index of theses
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e-journal consortium
Facilitated first consortium for subscription to e-journal with RGUHS (http://www.rguhs.ac.in/ )
Consortium being expanded to 108 medical colleges
Developed tools for e-journals consortia formation and use:l Guidelines for consortia formationl WEB based freeware for formation of Union Catalogue
of periodicalsl Self learning tool (freeware) for searching bio-medical
information on the WEB, with a huge repository of free resources on hte internet. (www.medinfoguide.org )
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Consortium value and costs
INDEST 5,000 e-journals 120 institutions – MHRD funded
HELINET 400 journals for 6-8 lakhs per college / 800 journals/ 200 books for Rs. 1000 – 2000 per student per year
Hellinet use- 2003 highest month -2000 downloads
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Health Organizer-research to the periphery
Knowledge management tool for use by the public health functionaries and institutions in the periphery
Easily customizable and user-friendly front-end desktop for sharing, organizing and accessing relevant information
Highly appreciated by doctors in the primary health center
Freeware( http://www.westgodavari.org/health/ )
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HINARI
HIN Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
50 publishers providing 2,400 journals and other full text resources to 113 countries
Currently not available to India, Pakistan etc.
Working to get the coverage enlarged in 2005 at-least for public health institutions
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HINARI – Participation and use
1043 Institutions registered from 100 countries (eligible 113)
Income < USD 1000, 56 countries no subscriptions, 21 only 2 journals
Usage level depends more on connectivity than economic strength of country
Biggest users: Ethiopia(13), Nepal (42)
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HINARI – USEDown-loads from 112 Blackwell titles
131% Increase
113% Increase
170,636 articles
Jan – June ‘04
73,734 articles
July- December ‘03
34,680 articles
Jan – June ‘03
Total 2500 titles - Projected > 1,000,000 articles in 2003
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Conclusion –Challenges and Opportunities
- Opportunities in collaboration and convergence for access
- Better evaluation of investments - Re-view investment priorities - Factors to increase demand and use of available
resources- Emphasis on access and training - Provide locally relevant content- Thesaurus – AYUSH
