Online Health Communities: an alternative feasible data registry tool for developing countries.

Health Res Policy Syst

Institute of Global Health, and Human Ecology (I-GHHE), The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.

Published: April 2023

Given the many challenges facing healthcare access in many developing countries and the added limitations observed in emergencies like COVID-19 pandemic, the authors here discuss an alternative and feasible approach to overcome all these limitations.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10077652PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-00976-wDOI Listing

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