title: Information technologies, health, and "globalization": anyone excluded?
abstract: Modern information technologies and worldwide communication through the Internet promise both universal access to information and the globalization of the medico-social network s modes of communication between doctors, laboratories, patients, and other players. The authors, specialists in public health and members of an association that aims to create opportunities for access to training in public health in developing countries, warn that the use of the term "globalization" ignores the reality of the "digital divide," that is, the fact that social inequalities may preclude the realization of this promise on a truly global scale.
authors.affiliation: Observatoire de la Santé du Hainaut, Havré, Belgium.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Parent
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Coppieters
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Parent
mesh_terms: D016251:CD-ROM / Q000592:standards; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards