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Grand Challenge:. Telepreventive Medicine. Prevention Knowledge on Demand. Any Time Any Place Any One. Global Health Network. 9250 Prevention Faculty from 151 Countries www.pitt.edu/~super1/. Changing Life Expectancy. Life expectancy has risen more in the
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Grand Challenge: Telepreventive Medicine Prevention Knowledge on Demand • Any Time • Any Place • Any One
Global Health Network 9250 Prevention Faculty from 151 Countries www.pitt.edu/~super1/
Changing Life Expectancy Life expectancy has risen more in the past 40 years than in the last 4000Wolfenson, World Bank
Louis Pasteur "When meditating over a malady, I never think of finding a remedy, but, indeed a means to prevent it"
The Health Gains are the Result of: Prevention
Preventionis Information Sharing
If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT 100,000 km/hr 250,000 km/liter Cost = $5.00
Telepreventive Medicine Inexpensive Low bandwidth systems designed to reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease. If institutionalized would be sustainable, and likely lead to improved global health.
Grand Challenge: Teleprevention • Network everyone in Prevention • Global Monitoring of disease • Build connections across bandwidth, from Neighborhoods to Internet2 • Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention Information • Reach the Unreached
Human Networks Across sectors Ramachandran LaPorte Browne India Ghana Uni. Pgh Wang MOH China Shubnikova Russia Sudan
Grand Challenge: Teleprevention • Network everyone in Prevention • Global Monitoring of disease • Build connections across bandwidth, from Neighborhoods to Internet2 • Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention Information • Reach the Unreached
General Motors sold 2,542,455 Automobiles World Wide
NCDs • What is the incidence of head injuries? • What is the incidence of CHD? • What is the incidence of Cancer? Nobody Knows
Good monitoring does not necessarily ensure the making of right decisions, but it reduces the risk of wrong ones. Languimer, 1963 We need to monitor health in all areas for all people
Grand Challenge: Teleprevention • Network everyone in Prevention • Global Monitoring of disease • Build connections across bandwidth, from Neighborhoods to Internet2 • Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention Information • Reach the Unreached
Face-to-Face Mail Telephone Internet1Internet2 Bridging the Bandwidth Spectrum with Prevention Grand Challenge:
Crossing the Digital Divide
Grand Challenge: Teleprevention • Network everyone in Prevention • Global Monitoring of disease • Build connections across bandwidth, from Neighborhoods to Internet2 • Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention Information • Reach the Unreached
But how do I get better lectures? Improved Manufacturing and Distribution of Lectures www.pitt.edu/~super1
Global course 9250 Faculty, from 151 countries Lectures on Demand 1301 Free PowerPoint lectures Assist the Teacher Teachers use lectures in their courses Multilingual Quality Assurance Crossing the Digital/Prevention Divide Mirrored servers, CD distribution, PowerPoint Comic books, Links to Muslim Cleric Inf. systems
Grand Challenge: Teleprevention • Network everyone in Prevention • Global Monitoring of disease • Build connections across bandwidth, from Neighborhoods to Internet2 • Build a corpus of easily usable Prevention Information • Reach the Unreached
This is the science you would see if you were blind
“The most urgent task before us is to get medical and health knowledge to those most in need of that knowledge.Of the approximately 50 million people who were dying each year in the late 1980’s, fully two thirds could have been saved through application of that knowledge.” Grant J. Med Educ 994;28(suppl 1):11