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RESEARCH ARTICLE

E-health: A Health Promotion Tool for Brazilian Amazon Region

Roosevelt S Bastos, Ângela Xavier, Aline Megumi Arakawa, José Roberto Magalhães Bastos, Magali Lourdes Caldana

Citation Information : Bastos RS, Xavier Â, Arakawa AM, Bastos JR, Caldana ML. E-health: A Health Promotion Tool for Brazilian Amazon Region. World J Dent 2012; 3 (4):320-323.

DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10015-1182

Published Online: 01-06-2014

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2012; The Author(s).


Abstract

Objective

This study aimed to describe the e-health activities of Project USP in Rondônia to promote health into the Amazonian Brazilian State Rondônia in different types of educational resources.

Methods

Population of Monte Negro county was reached by the e-health promotion activities including tele-education for community health workers, teachers and local health professionals with the videoconferencing, CD-ROM development and Cybertutor technologies. The population reached was calculated by the reach of these professionals into their daily activities.

Results

The e-health activities held by Project USP in Rondônia are reaching local stakeholders to expand the spread of health knowledge within a region with severe difficulties of access to information and health care. These stakeholders, mainly working locally in the educational and auxiliary health professions, are seizing their opportunity to provoke autonomy in the population they work with, disseminating information among children in public schools and health care, possibly reaching more than 1,380 families.

Conclusion

E-health activities showed to be important tool for health promotion to Amazonian communities. People living in regions with difficult access to many social needs, such as riverside communities, must be respected as citizens and thus their right to health must be ensured, which is provided in the Brazilian constitution, and it should be promoted through education, prevention and adequate health services.

How to cite this article

Bastos RS, Arakawa AM, Xavier A, Bastos JRM, Caldana ML. E-health: A Health Promotion Tool for Brazilian Amazon Region. World J Dent 2012;3(4):320-323.


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