Overcoming the impact of COVID-19 on surgical mentorship: a scoping review of long-distance mentorship in surgery

LN Raborn, JE Janis - Journal of Surgical Education, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Mentorship in the surgical field has been increasingly recognized as a crucial
component of career success. Distance mentorship models may be utilized to overcome …

[HTML][HTML] Current evidence on the use of mHealth approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

GT Aboye, MV Walle, GL Simegn, JM Aerts - Health Policy and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Mobile health (mHealth) approaches are especially beneficial to Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA), which has a disproportionate disease burden and a scarcity of healthcare …

WhatsApp Tele-Medicine–usage patterns and physicians views on the platform

E Barayev, O Shental, D Yaari, E Zloczower… - Israel journal of health …, 2021 - Springer
Background Telemedicine has become an integral part of health care delivery in recent
years. One of the leading applications for this use is WhatsApp—a free smartphone …

mHealth in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe: A systematic review comparing the use and availability of mHealth approaches in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe

GT Aboye, M Vande Walle, GL Simegn… - Digital …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background mHealth can help with healthcare service delivery for various health issues, but
there's a significant gap in the availability and use of mHealth systems between sub …

WhatsApp messenger role in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) pandemic

H Delam, A Eidi - Journal of Health Sciences & Surveillance …, 2020 - jhsss.sums.ac.ir
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19), which originated in December 2019, on January 30,
2020 was declared by the World Health Organization as the sixth public health emergency …

Telemedicine in surgical care in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review

EO Owolabi, T Mac Quene, J Louw, JI Davies… - World journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Access to timely and quality surgical care is limited in low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs). Telemedicine, defined as the remote provision of health care using …

Foot and ankle service adaptation in response to COVID-19 and beyond

I Feeley, T McAleese, K Clesham… - Annals of Medicine …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The disruption to healthcare provision as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled
us to streamline healthcare delivery. This has given us an opportunity to implement …

The management of pelvic ring fractures in low-resource environments

YP Djaja, J Silitonga, IH Dilogo, OJ Mauffrey - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Although improvement of pelvic trauma care has been successful in decreasing mortality
rates in major trauma centers, such changes have not been implemented in low-resource …

[HTML][HTML] Utilisation of WhatsApp for emergency medical services in Garissa, Kenya

JA Lee, BW Wachira, J Kennedy, N Asselin… - African Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Garissa county, Kenya is a geographically large county with a mobile pastoralist population
that has developed a method for emergency medical services (EMS) coordination using the …

Back to basics: urban households' perspective on free water supply in Ghana in the COVID-19 pandemic

N Fielmua, JD Mengba - Waterlines, 2022 - practicalactionpublishing.com
Water supply is a basic human right and governments have sought to fulfil this right through
free supply of water. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed governments …