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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 11:39:56 -0400
From: woodall@wadsworth.org
To: promed@usa.healthnet.org
Subject: PROMED: Global Health Center


INTERACTIVE ONLINE GLOBAL HEALTH CENTER - HEALTH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
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Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 15:54:40 -0400

Health Professionals, especially medical doctors, are required as volunteers
to `man' a  global health information and assessment
center on the World Wide Web. Sit at home/office and contribute just
30 minutes to an hour per week/fortnight and you could help reach out
to the health concerns of people across the world. Also needed are
volunteer online medical librarians to help organise, update and maintain
the medical pages in the library of the Global Health Center.

The online Global Health Center prototype has been put online
for your benefit so that you may access it, get to know the
concept, and provide feedback for modifications. Visit the Global Health
Center at

        http://praxis.comm.cornell.edu/COMM640/~Health/hosp.HTM


The Global Health Center has been envisaged to provide online
consultation services and information for the health
concerns of the public across the world on a non-commercial
basis. It will provide a gateway to health information databases
available on the WWW and the Internet as well as a Consultation
Center through which members of the public can directly interact
(real-time and email) with medical professionals about their health
concerns. The Center can also act as a `space' for health professionals
themselves to interact with each other.

In Asia and Africa, where health care systems are inadequate
and where the number of doctors per thousand of the population
have been put at below 1-0.5, the Center can act as a direct
source of information and limited diagnostic assessment for health
concerns. Public kiosks with a single online terminal set up at village
schools or community halls can provide direct access
for people in areas where technological or economic factors limit
easy access to the Internet. A background document examining the relevance
of the Global Health Center for the health concerns of the public both in
the developing and the developed worlds has been prepared and can be send to
you.

Note that the center is not fully functional as of yet. But
active work is going on and it will be made functional over the
next few weeks.

Send message to Korula Varghese at kv16@cornell.edu if you would like to
contribute to this  effort or if you would like to get any further
information. In the meantime visit:

  http://praxis.comm.cornell.edu/COMM640/~Health/hosp.HTM

           HELP MAKE THE WORLD WORRY A BIT LESS


Korula Varghese, Ph D.
<303 Kennedy Hall,
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York -14853-4203

Phone: 607-255-6321
Fax  : 607-255-7905
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