AbstractsMedical & Health Science

ICT delivery of health information for older adults in Hong Kong

by Jie Liu




Institution: University of Hong Kong
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Degree: MSin Library and Information Management
Year: 2011
Keywords: Health - Information services - China - Hong Kong.; Internet and older people - China - Hong Kong.; Technology and older people - China - Hong Kong.
Record ID: 1160633
Full text PDF: http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4746939


Abstract

Although there is a general trend of aging as the expected longitude increase for human being, the developing countries which, according to the report of WHO, have grown old even before grow rich face a more challenging state than the developed countries. These countries, especially their rural parts, are less likely to adapt to the aging trend with relatively smaller medical budget, less developed professional training of care takers, and a lack of public awareness of prevention and treatment of geriatric disease.(Organization, Health, Promotion, & Course, 2011) On the other hand, it indicates a big stage for distant medical service to play because of its lower cost of implementation and effectiveness in controlling the overall medical expenditure given such service would help to prevent and control at a earlier stage of disease. Therefore in developing countries like China and for population like the older citizen who has less mobility, online healthcare information platform is expected to play a much more important role than in developed countries. At the same time, experienced can be borrowed from investigations and installations of online platform of health information designed for the older population where they usually serve as a supplement to the primary health care facility in developed countries like UK. published_or_final_version Library and Information Management master's Master of Science in Library and Information Management