Boletín Informativo. No. 27 octubre 2010
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The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite


By Maged N. Kamel Boulos* & Steve Wheeler†,
*Faculty of Health and Social Work
†Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

Health Information & Libraries JournalVolume 24, Issue 1,
Article first published online: 28 FEB 2007

 

Abstract


Web 2.0 sociable technologies and social software are presented as
enablers in health and health care, for organizations, clinicians, patients
and laypersons. They include social networking services, collaborative
filtering, social bookmarking, folksonomies, social search engines, file
sharing and tagging, mashups, instant messaging, and online
multi-player games. The more popular Web 2.0 applications in education,
namely wikis, blogs and podcasts, are but the tip of the social software
iceberg. Web 2.0 technologies represent a quite revolutionary way of
managing and repurposing/remixing online information and knowledge
repositories, including clinical and research information, in comparison
with the traditional Web 1.0 model. The paper also offers a glimpse of
future software, touching on Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) and how it
could be combined with Web 2.0 to produce the ultimate architecture
of participation. Although the tools presented in this review look very
promising and potentially fit for purpose in many health care
applications and scenarios, careful thinking, testing and evaluation
research are still needed in order to establish ‘best practice models’
for leveraging these emerging technologies to boost our teaching and
learning productivity, foster stronger ‘communities of practice’, and
support continuing medical education/professional development
(CME/CPD) and patient education.

 

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Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond: sustaining the ‘Big Push’


Gorik Ooms,Institute of Tropical Medicine,
Department of Public Health, Antwerp, Belgium

David Stuckler, Oxford University, Department of Sociology,
Oxford, UK - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
Department of Public Health and Policy

Sanjay Basu, University of California San Francisco,
Department of Medicine, and San Francisco General Hospital,  San Francisco CA  

Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London, United Kingdom



Globalization and Health 2010, 6:17 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-6-17 
            



“…….Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in
the world’s poorest countries, yet only five years remain until the target date.
The financing of these Goals is not merely insufficient; current evidence
indicates that the temporary nature of the financing, as well as challenges to
coordinating its delivery and directing it to the most needy recipients, hinder
achievement of the Goals in countries that may benefit most.

 

Traditional approaches to providing development assistance for health have
not been able to address both prevalent and emergent public health challenges
captured in the Goals; these challenges demand sustained forms of financial
redistribution through a coordinated mechanism.

 

A global social health protection fund is proposed to address recurring failures
in the modern aid distribution mechanism. Such a Fund could use established
and effective strategies for aid delivery to mitigate many financial problems
currently undermining the Millennium Development Goals initiative….”

 

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