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A Health Virtual Community Model: A Bottom Up Approach

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

Keywords: Health; Global Health; Online Communities; Modeling; developing countries; rural eHealth; LMIC

Abstract:
This paper presents a model for Health Virtual Communities (Health VCs) based on a case study of a Health VC for chronic disease management designed for rural and disadvantaged communities in a developing country. It provides an analysis of the components needed in the Health VC and the necessity of a flexible design. The model provides a list of characteristics that a Health VC design should have in order for it to provide a viable, value-added experience to users who have heterogeneous capacities in terms of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It establishes a first attempt towards a framework for a Global Health VC analysis and design.

Pages: 99 to 104

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: March 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-327-8

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014