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A Health VC for Chronic Disease Management in a Global Context

Authors:
Christo El Morr
Shadi Saleh
Walid Ammar
Nabil Natafgi
Karen Kazandjian

Keywords: Health Virtual Communities; Virtual Communities; Online Communities; Chronic Disease Management; Chronic Disease; Modeling; Global Health; Developing Countries; LMIC

Abstract:
This paper presents an implementation of hybrid Health Virtual Community (Health VC) using a predefined model to design Health VC in a developing country. It provides an analysis of the components needed in an environment where high technology is not as available as in a developing country. We argue that virtual community researches should take into consideration a more flexible approach to model VCs and we suggest changes to the model.

Pages: 71 to 75

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: August 24, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-359-9

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 24, 2014 to August 28, 2014