Online Health Communities: an alternative feasible data registry tool for developing countries

Omnia Abdelraheem; Diana G Sami; Mohamed Salama

doi:10.1186/s12961-023-00976-w

Online Health Communities: an alternative feasible data registry tool for developing countries

Health Res Policy Syst. 2023 Apr 6;21(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s12961-023-00976-w.

Authors

Omnia Abdelraheem¹, Diana G Sami¹, Mohamed Salama^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Global Health, and Human Ecology (I-GHHE), The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
² Institute of Global Health, and Human Ecology (I-GHHE), The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. Mohamed-Salama@aucegypt.edu.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Mohamed-Salama@aucegypt.edu.
⁴ Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Mohamed-Salama@aucegypt.edu.

Abstract

Given the many challenges facing healthcare access in many developing countries and the added limitations observed in emergencies like COVID-19 pandemic, the authors here discuss an alternative and feasible approach to overcome all these limitations.

Keywords: Data collection; Data registry; Disease cohorts; Online Health communities: OHC.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Developing Countries
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
Epidemiologic Methods*
Health Services Accessibility
Internet / standards
Online Social Networking*
Registries* / standards