title: Evaluation of distance learning for health education.
abstract: The Hawai'i Unified Telehealth program is a distance learning health education program for rural communities, created with federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Institutes of Health. These grant funds helped develop a network of rural community learning centers that employ distance learning technologies to provide community-driven peer education to isolated areas across Hawai'i and Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. In this article, the authors briefly describe the development of the ongoing health education program and the results of outcome evaluation completed at the end of the funding period.
authors.affiliation: Hawai'i/Pacific Basin Area Health Center, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813-5525, USA. withyk@hawaii.rr.com
authors.forename: Kelley
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Withy
authors.forename: Shaun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sekiguchi
authors.forename: January
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Andaya
authors.forename: Megan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inada
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D018961:Educational Technology; D006254:Hawaii; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008849:Micronesia; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*