Jahid H. Panir

Healthcare ICTs for the Unhealthy Poor

View from Bangladesh

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Produktbeschreibung

This study assesses the role of ICTs in the rural healthcare in a resource-poor setting. Depicting the contextual realities of Bangladesh as a case example, this qualitative research exploits a livelihood approach and aims to contribute to the development informatics community literature. The key findings reveal that ICTs can play a very marginal role in access to health information due to the vulnerability and limited information resources of the poor. It also informs that most health related ICT initiatives are supply-driven and led by technological determinism which widens the gaps in the digital divide. The study suggests more emphasis on information than technology . It argues that soft issues gathered from the livelihoods of the poor may create an information systems plus atmosphere where plus will enable poor-focused healthcare reforms, business process reengineering and human resource development. The research concludes that for implementing e-health as digital strategy for non-digital people in Bangladesh, an integrated, visionary and demand-driven ICT approach is more crucial than plucking any low-ranging fruits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 137g
• ISBN-13: 9783848436675
• ISBN-10: 3848436671
• Artikelnr.: 35548618

Autorenporträt

Jahid H. Panir is a civil servant of the Government of Bangladesh. He earned MSc in Management & Information Systems from IDPM, University of Manchester & BCom (Hons) degree from University of Dhaka. He held Japan Govt MONBUSHO Fellowship at Hitotsubashi University. He taught at BPATC as a faculty. Development informatics is his core research area.