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Tele-education and tele-health

 

UNISPACE III Action Team on Public Health  (Action Team 6)

Following the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space ( UNISPACE III), Action Teams were established by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to implement the recommendations of the Conference.

Action Team 6 was established to foster the implementation of tele-health for developing countries and to improve public health services by faciliting the applications of space technologies in the early warning of infectious diseases.

  

Available online resources

  • United Nations/India/USA Pilot Project "Telemedicine in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan" Expert Meeting, Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, India, 29 - 31 August 2006
    Online Presentations

 

 
 
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