[afro-nets] Innovative ideas needed

[Madeleine Anne Decker <omsdoc@oms-mz.org>]

Innovative ideas needed for timely and effective public health
information dissemination
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SPEAKER'S CORNER
Bernard C K Choi
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005; 59:259

http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/59/4/259

Innovative ideas needed for timely and effective public health
information dissemination

Scientific findings must be published in accessible formats for
the public to use. One common practice is to put information on
line. However, web based information may be neither timely nor
effective. There are information users who do not have access to
the internet. Even among those with internet access, it may be
difficult to reach a specific piece of information on a specific
web site. For example, a Google search on the internet using the
key words "health + information" brought 103,000,000 web sites.
If a person spends on average only one minute on each web site,
it will takes 588 years to go through all existing web sites as-
suming an eight hour workday, 365 days a year.

Innovative ideas are therefore needed for timely and effective
information dissemination. Six ideas are presented here, for the
purpose of stimulating further collective thinking to develop
and evaluate these and some more ideas.


Regards,
Madeleine Anne Decker
Documentation Officer
WHO Mozambique
mailto:omsdoc@oms-mz.org