Health learning materials support in South Africa compared with other developing countries.
Actions to promote media use for education at all levels in developing countries have to cope with a number of deterrents like the lack of appropriate audiovisual materials and a media support infrastructure. In the early eighties the World Health Organization and United Nations Development Programme initiated a capacity building project to enable developing countries to generate sufficient instructional and learning materials for medical and health education. Since South Africa is still a non-participator in the programme, this article presents the findings of a recent survey to get a global picture of health learning materials support in developing countries as a possible model for South Africa.
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University of Stellenbosch Bureau for Medical and Dental Education, Tygerberg, South Africa. jhu@maties.sun.ac.za
D003906:Developing Countries; D004501:Education, Medical; D018961:Educational Technology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006266:Health Education; D013019:South Africa; D013664:Teaching Materials