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Rotunda Library Newsletter
WHO: Status of mHealth in member states
Only five years ago who would have imagined that today a woman
in sub-Saharan Africa could use a mobile phone to access health
information essential to bringing her pregnancy safely to term?
Mobile phones are now the most widely used communication
technology in the world. They continue to spread at an exponential
rate - particularly in developing countries. This expansion provides
unprecedented opportunities to apply mobile technology for health.
How are mobile devices being used for health around the world?
What diverse scenarios can mHealth be applied in and how effective
are these approaches? What are the most important obstacles that
countries face in implementing mHealth solutions?
mHealth: New Horizons for Health through Mobile Technology,
a WHO publication includes a series of detailed case studies
highlighting best practices in mHealth in different settings. The
publication will be of particular interest to policymakers in health
and information technology, as well as those in the mobile
telecommunications and software development industries.
Embryo
Scientists and educators have used the Carnegie Embryo
Collection, housed at the National Museum of Health and
Medicine, to define normal human embryo development for
decades. A database, called the Virtual Human Embryo, has
been created to provide digital serial sections of human embryos
from the collection.
The Embryo App uses mobile telecommunication and multimedia
technologies to add interactive capabilities to the digital
information, enhancing our understanding of embryo development.
Features at a glance:
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videos showing human fertilization
photo micrographs of early stages of embryo development
Stages (1 to 23);
digital images of the early stages both in 2-D and 3-D using
visual stack dissections
pregnancy calculator
Embryo is available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/
publications/2011/9789241564250_eng.pdf