Red de Desarrollo Social de América Latina y el Caribe
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e-Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and challenges

 

Autor institucional : ECLAC - Social Development Division
Autor/Autores: Andrés Fernández; Enrique Oviedo (editors)
Fecha de publicación: July, 2011
Alcance geográfico: Regional
Publicado en: Chile
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Resumen: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are tools that can be used to bridge gaps and provide citizens with opportunities, such as broader access to quality health care. This book describes population trends that underscore the need to incorporate ICTs more decisively into health care in the region and describes, from a development perspective, the promise that e-Health holds for meeting health-care challenges through expanding access to quality health care. It also examines the progress and challenges in the area of e-Health and telemedicine in 12 Latin American countries and 8 countries from the Caribbean sub-region.
   

 

 

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