Veronique Thouvenot

Foundation Millennia2025 Women and Innovation, Namur, Belgium · Women Observatory for eHealth

Introduction/objectifs/but La Fondation Millennia2025 « Femmes et Innovation », PuF, est engagee depuis 2010 dans une etude de recherche prospective mondiale pour l’autonomisation des femmes. La e-Sante et la telemedecine sont identifiees comme des variables prospectives a haut potentiel de developpement par la constitution de reseaux globaux. Mate...

Este libro introduce las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) y las principales aplicaciones TIC que han sido adoptadas por el Sector Salud, centrándose en las que permiten monitorear, informar y mejorar la atención materna e infantil que brindan las parteras profesionales y otros profesionales de la salud en América Latina. El lib...

The Women and eHealth Study 2010-2012 is conducted with the vision to constitute a Millennia2015 powerful demonstration of women empowerment in the arena of eHealth and telemedicine through digital solidarity and gender equity. The overall objective is to stimulate more women to use advanced technologies combined with innovative integrated collabor...

As women remain the forgotten group in many countries, together, “Connecting Nurses” and Millennia2015 WeTelemed have decided to join their forces and launch the WeObservatory an innovative Digital Inclusion Platform dedicated to women’s global health challenges, hosted in the Foundation Millennia2025. The overall objective of the WeObservatory is...

Zero Mothers Die is a commitment towards saving women’s lives using ICTs. The Zero Mothers Die project envisioned by a unique partnership targets 100.000 expectant and new mothers at risk by employing a comprehensive approach to improving maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and the systematic distribution of mobile phones and SMS messages alo...

Las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) siguen expandiéndose rápidamente en el mundo, gracias en parte a reducciones graduales en sus costos de adquisición, uso, mantenimiento y actualización, especialmente en telefonía móvil celular. Las TIC se aplican en diversas áreas de la industria y el comercio, así como en la educación, sal...

Chapter 7. WeTelemed, the global network of women in telemedicine The Women and Telemedicine Global Network (WeTelemed) has been initiated in April 2012, with the vision to constitute a Millennia2015 powerful demonstration of women empowerment in the arena of telemedicine through digital solidarity and gender equity. The overall objective is to sti...

The revised International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR) provides a legal framework for the global response to public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC). With the coming into force of the IHR on June 15, 2007, under Annex 1a and Annex 2, all 194 Member States (including the United States) of the World Health Organization (WHO) have...

The 194 Member States (including the United States) of the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed the revised International Health Regulations 2005(IHR), a legal framework that aims to prevent and respond to acute public health threats with the potential for international spread. IHR strengthens WHO member states collective defences against th...

To describe the case of Congo as an example of the assessment and appropriateness of donor operational and sectoral strategies in a complex emergency. The paper reports the findings of an external evaluation of operations financed by the European Commission Humanitarian Office in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Congolese health system i...