Telehealth as a Panacea Amidst Global Pandemic (COVID-19) in Africa

Technology is disrupting bringing up a better innovation and strengthening the healthcare services. Telehealth is one of these services. Telehealth can help in times of emergency situations as well as reducing morbidity caused by other diseases other than coronavirus and also constraining its spread as well as sustaining the country's economic development. Although, telehealth is a disruptive innovation, this article aimed to point out why Africa and rest of the world need telehealth to structure out the management of the three phases of health crises (pre, during and post-crises) that must be address to help in economic sustainability, increase accessibility to healthcare and increase in quality of life which in turn reduces costs and easy access to healthcare services either incommunicable, non-communicable, or disastrous situations in the African region. In fighting an outbreak such as this, our study finds that the government of African nations should guarantee all health experts get fitting instruction and preparing; present telehealth accreditation for wellbeing experts; give subsidizing which satisfactorily takes care of the expense of giving telehealth; overhaul clinical models of care; bolster all partners with a viable correspondence; and finally, change the board technique while setting up frameworks to oversee telehealth benefits on a standard premise..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Düzce Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi - 23(2021), Special Issue, Seite 43-47

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Festus Fatai Adedoyin [VerfasserIn]
Festus Victor Bekun [VerfasserIn]
İlknur Öztürk [VerfasserIn]
Gloria Nnadwa Alhassan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Africa
Afrika
Coronavirus
Covid-19
Global pandemic
Medicine
Medicine (General)
Pandemi
R
Telehealth
Telesağlık

doi:

10.18678/dtfd.898373

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ056439172