Telehealth in Sub-Saharan Africa Lessons for Humanitarian Engineering

被引:2
作者
Foster, Kenneth R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Penn, Dept Bioengn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
关键词
TELEMEDICINE;
D O I
10.1109/MTS.2010.935977
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In the past decade a quiet revolution has spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa, as wireless telephone networks have spread - often to areas that have never had landline service - making modern communications available for the first time to millions of people. © 2010 IEEE.
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页码:42 / 49
页数:8
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