Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: With a comprehensive draft report in 2018 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on aRegional Action Agenda for Harnessing eHealth for the Improved Delivery of HealthServices in the Western Pacific the time is ripe for a significant population basedcomprehensive remote health monitoring trial for the states of the Pacific Islands. Region(PIR). A private-public partnership is one strong collaboration model that could beadopted to undertake trials across the PIR. As a precursor to a full clinical trial theproposed plan of this report is addressing from one perspective a key area of upcomingpublic health concern in the PIR that being of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) and isbecoming a significant strain on the health budgets of many states in the region. Hencea discussion on the use of eHealth tools in addressing this endemic is relevant nowhowever embarking on any large eHealth which will be costly, a carefully managed clinicaltrial across the various Pacific Islands is likely to be a more viable option to isolate thoseareas where high priority should be placed for everyday consumer eHealth tools.Therefore, the private -public partnership for the clinical trial must be given seriousconsideration.
Source: Figshare
Author: Sharma, Deven Prasad
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6902228926
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