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Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society

Author : Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,84 MB

Release : 2025-01-13

Category : Science

ISBN : 0443301697

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Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society proofs the urgent need to understand the potential of advanced IT for healthcare sector. It shares crucial knowledge about best experiences, tools and solutions provided by IT to solve the global disruption caused the pandemic in societies, healthcare infrastructures and health workers as well as for preparedness for future pandemics and global disruption. In 9 sections the reader is provided with case studies and experiences not only from Asia-Pacific and Europe, but also from other regions (Africa, Latin America, Gulf Region and USA), innovative, new and emerging topics in the field of digital healthcare, digital inclusion and citizen empowerment, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and experiences in post-COVID scenario and recommendations for policy makers around the world. This book gives insight to Researchers, clinicians, CEOs and policymakers who need to learn from the failures and successes and exploit the potential of advanced information technologies to build stronger healthcare systems, and better quality healthcare services. - Shows the urgent need to understand the potential of advanced IT for healthcare sector - Gives insight in the successes and failures during pandemics - Exploits the potential of AI, big data and knowledge management to provide better healthcare services and more digital inclusion of citizen •Includes study cases in the field of IT and digital health during the pandemic and analyses lesson learned



Global Trends 2040

Author : National Intelligence Council

Publisher : Cosimo Reports

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 31,22 MB

Release : 2021-03

Category :

ISBN : 9781646794973

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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.



Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030

Author : World Health Organization

Publisher : World Health Organization

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 47,69 MB

Release : 2019-01-21

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 9241514183

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Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease stroke diabetes and breast and colon cancer. It also helps to prevent hypertension overweight and obesity and can improve mental health quality of life and well-being. In addition to the multiple health benefits of physical activity societies that are more active can generate additional returns on investment including a reduced use of fossil fuels cleaner air and less congested safer roads. These outcomes are interconnected with achieving the shared goals political priorities and ambition of the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The new WHO global action plan to promote physical activity responds to the requests by countries for updated guidance and a framework of effective and feasible policy actions to increase physical activity at all levels. It also responds to requests for global leadership and stronger regional and national coordination and the need for a whole-of-society response to achieve a paradigm shift in both supporting and valuing all people being regularly active according to ability and across the life course. The action plan was developed through a worldwide consultation process involving governments and key stakeholders across multiple sectors including health sports transport urban design civil society academia and the private sector.



Africa's Development Dynamics 2019 Achieving Productive Transformation

Author : African Union Commission

Publisher : OECD Publishing

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 13,24 MB

Release : 2019-11-05

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ISBN : 9264731296

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Africa’s Development DynamicsWhat are the major economic and social trends in Africa? What is Africa’s role in globalisation? This annual report presents an Africa open to the world and towards the future. uses the lessons learned in the five African regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop recommendations and share good practices. The report identifies innovative policies and offers practical policy recommendations, adapted to the specificities of African economies. Drawing on the most recent available statistics, this analysis of development dynamics aims to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national, and local. Every year this report will focus on one strategic theme. This 2019 edition explores policies for productive transformation. It proposes three main policy focus for transforming firms: providing business services to clusters of firms; developing regional production networks; and improving exporting firms’ ability to thrive in fast-changing markets. This volume feeds into a policy debate between African Union’s nations, citizens, entrepreneurs and researchers. It aims to be part of a new co-operation between countries and regions focused on mutual learning and the preservation of common goods. This report is the result of a partnership between the African Union Commission and the OECD Development Centre.



Information and Communication Technologies for Women's Socioeconomic Empowerment

Author : Samia Melhem

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 99 pages

File Size : 35,21 MB

Release : 2009-10-02

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0821381342

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This paper reviews how women in the developing world access and use information and communication technology (ICT). It examines the discourse and controversies surrounding the digital gender divide, including links to poverty and illiteracy. Major themes concerning women and ICTs are explored, such as women in the ICT workforce, how girls and women relate differently to ICT, and opportunities and barriers for women in science and technology in general. Current research relating to gender and ICT is often country-specific and is more prevalent in developed countries than in developing countries. This paper suggests where additional research is needed on barriers to women s entry and access to ICT. The overall objective of this paper is to influence policy dialogue around women and ICT for development by raising awareness of the digital gender divide. Economic opportunity for women in ICT will not be realized until policies address gender considerations and ensure that ICT investment contributes to more sustainable and equitable development.



Asian Economic Integration Report 2021

Author : Asian Development Bank

Publisher : Asian Development Bank

Page : 540 pages

File Size : 22,5 MB

Release : 2021-02-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9292627163

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted both supply and demand sides of an interconnected world economy in 2020. Asia and the Pacific was not immune as lockdowns and travel and trade restrictions affected nearly all aspects of cross-border economic activity. This publication examines the initial impact on trade, investment, finance, and people’s mobility across the region as the pandemic struck. It looks at how regional economies individually or collectively respond to the crisis by, for example, leveraging rapid technological progress and digitalization as well as increasing services trade to reconnect and recover. The theme chapter focuses on digital platforms and how they can accelerate digital transformation across the region.



Voice and Agency

Author : Jeni Klugman

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 19,29 MB

Release : 2014-09-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1464803595

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"The 2012 report recognized that expanding women's agency - their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities is key to improving their lives as well as the world. This report represents a major advance in global knowledge on this critical front. The vast data and thousands of surveys distilled in this report cast important light on the nature of constraints women and girls continue to face globally. This report identifies promising opportunities and entry points for lasting transformation, such as interventions that reach across sectors and include life-skills training, sexual and reproductive health education, conditional cash transfers, and mentoring. It finds that addressing what the World Health Organization has identified as an epidemic of violence against women means sharply scaling up engagement with men and boys. The report also underlines the vital role information and communication technologies can play in amplifying women's voices, expanding their economic and learning opportunities, and broadening their views and aspirations. The World Bank Group's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity demand no less than the full and equal participation of women and men, girls and boys, around the world." -- Publisher's description.



Affordable Excellence

Author : William A. Haseltine

Publisher : Brookings Institution Press

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 45,35 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0815724160

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"Today Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes well ahead of many developed countries, including the United States. The results are all the more significant as Singapore spends less on healthcare than any other high-income country, both as measured by fraction of the Gross Domestic Product spent on health and by costs per person. Singapore achieves these results at less than one-fourth the cost of healthcare in the United States and about half that of Western European countries. Government leaders, presidents and prime ministers, finance ministers and ministers of health, policymakers in congress and parliament, public health officials responsible for healthcare systems planning, finance and operations, as well as those working on healthcare issues in universities and think-tanks should know how this system works to achieve affordable excellence."--Publisher's website.



Digital Transformation in Business and Society

Author : Babu George

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 48,83 MB

Release : 2019-10-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030082776

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The digital traces that people leave behind as they conduct their daily lives provide a powerful resource for businesses to better understand the dynamics of an otherwise chaotic society. Digital technologies have become omnipresent in our lives and we still do not fully know how to make the best use of the data these technologies could harness. Businesses leveraging big data appropriately could definitely gain a sustainable competitive advantage. With a balanced mix of texts and cases, this book discusses a variety of digital technologies and how they transform people and organizations. It offers a debate on the societal consequences of the yet unfolding technological revolution and proposes alternatives for harnessing disruptive technologies for the greater benefit of all. This book will have wide appeal to academics in technology management, strategy, marketing, and human resource management.



Here Comes Everybody

Author : Clay Shirky

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 43,51 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781594201530

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Discusses and uses examples of how digital networks transform the ability of humans to gather and cooperate with one another.