From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Eduardo Missoni</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eduardo.missoni@unibocconi.it">eduardo.missoni@unibocconi.it</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div><div><br>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<br><div><br><div><a href="http://www.eduardomissoni.net/CV/mieiscrittipdf/090619%20-%20Daignostic%20Pathology.pdf" target="_blank">Bellina,
 L., Missoni, E., Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in telemicroscopy: 
increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories, Diagnostic Pathology, 
2009, 4: 19</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/fulltext.pdf" target="_blank">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</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<div><div>Eduardo Missoni</div><div><div></div>Center for Research on Health and Social Care Management - CERGAS<div>Bocconi University</div>Milano, Italy<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cergas.unibocconi.it/globalhealth" target="_blank">www.cergas.unibocconi.it/globalhealth</a></div>
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