E-drug: WHO and training (cont'd)
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Hello everyone,
I've been following the discussion on availability of information with
interest. Dr Holloway's response referred to the many resources
that are now available on the WHO website,
I would also add that the Management Sciences for Health website,
especially the Manager's Electronic Resource Center
http://erc.msh.org/ has a lot of useful documents, including a
number on drugs and related issues -- notably the International Drug
Price Indicator Guide, which is searchable.
I would be very interested to know from those of you based in
developing and transitional countries how accessible those
documents and other documents posted on the web are to you --
what dial-up costs you face, what other obstacles, how long it
takes to download a page, what printing facilities you have, etc.
My feeling is that those of us in the industrialized world with good
or even moderate acccess to the web may underestimate the
difficulties faced by people in the developing and transitional
countries in actually getting to websites like the who.int website,
but I'd like to see some more evidence on this point.
Best wishes,
Susan Foster, PhD
Chair, Department of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany Street
Boston MA 02118 USA
phone: +1 617 638 5234, 638 5397
fax: +1 617 638 4476
e-mail: sfoster@bu.edu
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ih (the department)
http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/sfoster/ (my courses)
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