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Further details at:
http://www.gpphi.org/special-issue-of-the-km-el-international-journal
Thanks, Neil PW]
This special issue of the KM&EL international journal (Hong Kong) is
dedicated to coverage of knowledge management and information
dissemination for health in underserved areas.
Numerous studies have demonstrated the high cost, in both financial
and humanistic terms, of a lack of access to current healthcare
knowledge. Many international settings are using textbooks that are
seriously outdated, and practicing in ways that have been proven to
be ineffective and/or dangerous. At the same time, we are seeing an
explosion of information and communication technologies (ICT) that
are reaching even the most remote corners of the globe. As these two
trends collide, we are seeing tremendous innovation and application
of KM techniques and ICT utilization to 'reach and teach' in remote
communities aroundound the world. Indeed, Deaton states that 'The
health h and life expectancy of the vast majority of mankind, whether
they live in rich or poor countries, depends on ideas, techniques,
and therapies developed elsewhere, so that it is the spread of
knowledge that is the fundamental determinant of population health.'
Thiis issue is designed to elicit both theoretical and applied papers
that describe efforts to reduce international asymmetries of health
information by increasing access to health knowledge bases via ICT.
We are interested in theoretical papers that posit the promise and
possibilities global e-health, and applied research papers that
provide results of knowledge access, knowledge management, and
knowledge dissemination for international health. We are particularly
interested in papers in this space that focus upon application in low
resource areas and/or with the medically underserved. Our goal is to
stimulate interest in the issues across academia, practice, industry,
research and policy. We welcome focused papers from all sectors.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Knowledge management in ICT-enabled, yet low resourced areas
- Practical uusage/application of ICT for evidence based practice in
global e-health
- E-health via ICT ? Lessons ns Ls Learned
- M-health via cellular telephony and otherr mechanisms ? New
innovations for distributing health knowledge and best practices via
mobile technologies
- Managing and developing knowledge from underserved aareas; what can
communities teach us?
- Producingg culturally sensitive, feasible, and distributable best
practices for ICT-enabled delivery
- Socio-culturral aspects of ICT enabled e-health
- Infrastructurre challenges in global e-health in the e-health/m-health domain
- New developments, trends and approaches.
IMPORTANT DATES
Letter of Intent due: November 20, 2009 (send to: pabbott2@son.jhmi.edu)
Submission due: 15th January, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 15th March, 2010
Publication schedule: Jun 2010 (Vol.2, No.2)
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Papers must not have been published, accepted for publication, or
presently be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A
standard double-blind review process will be used for selecting
papers to be published in this special issue.
Authors should follow the instructions outlined in the KM&EL Website
(see URL:
http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions)
NOTE: I know many of you in the GANM are doing this type of work and
hope you will consider submitting. We need to hear from *nurses and
midwives* in this very multidisciplinary journal.
[Sent by Patricia Abbott - HIFA2015 profile: Patricia Abbott is the
Co-Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing
Knowledge, Information Management and Sharing at the Johns Hopkins
School of Nursing in Baltimore, USA. She is also a member of the
Board of Directors for the American Medical Informatics Association
(AMIA) and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the
American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Patricia is a
Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the
American Academy of Nursing. Dr Abbott's primary area of research is
in connectionist machine learning techniques/data mining.
Additionally, Dr. Abbott serves as the Secretariat for the Global
Alliance of Nurses and Midwives Communities of Practice effort; a WHO
initiative to address the crisis in the global health workforce.
pabbott2 AT son.jhmi.edu ]
posted 06 November 2009 by Neil Pakenham-Walsh from email
