PHM-Exch> Open letter to WHO Member States on the CEWG report (3)

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Eduardo Missoni <eduardo.missoni at unibocconi.it>

Let me add to Neil's interventions that when it comes to technologies the
first and most appropriate step is to make best use of technologies ALREADY
existing and accessible locally. A classic (old) example is educate to use
salt and sugar for home made oral rehydration solutions, rather than for
ready-made sachet of salts for its preparation. A more modern example is to
learn to use m-phones (today available almost everywhere) to take and send
images from a microscope to a reference centre for diagnostic confirmation,
before mobilizing a patient form a rural center to the capital; instead of
looking for new technologies and devices to make the same picture... or use
the same available technology to train local health workers

Bellina, L., Missoni, E., Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in telemicroscopy:
increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories, Diagnostic Pathology,
2009, 4: 19<http://www.eduardomissoni.net/CV/mieiscrittipdf/090619%20-%20Daignostic%20Pathology.pdf>



Bellina, L. Missoni, E. M-learning: mobile phones’ appropriateness and
potential for the training of laboratory technicians in limited-resource
settings. Health and Technology DOI: 10.1007/s12553-011-0008-x,
2011<http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/fulltext.pdf>


Eduardo Missoni
Center for Research on Health and Social Care Management - CERGAS
Bocconi University
Milano, Italy

www.cergas.unibocconi.it/globalhealth
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