Percepciones de los trabajadores del sector salud frente a Internet y las tecnologías móviles en Colombia Health care workers' perception of the Internet and mobile technologies in Colombia

Autor: José Ignacio Valenzuela, Juan Camilo Camacho, Arturo Argüello, Juan Gabriel Cendales, Roosevelt Fajardo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 25, Iss 4, Pp 367-374 (2009)
ISSN: 1680-5348
1020-4989
Popis: In July 2007 in Medellín, Colombia, 1 200 health care professionals were asked to complete a questionnaire: of the 493 who participated, the mean age was 31.2 years; 58.8% were physicians; and 97.6% had Internet access, 60.5% on a daily basis and 27.7%, weekly. The preferred place to access the Internet was from home (58%) or from the work place (12.5%); 98% reported having a cell phone, and of those, 80% were interested in using health education tools via cell phone. These are the first data published regarding Internet and cellular phone penetration among health care workers in Colombia. Acceptance of the Internet and mobile systems as health information tools is gaining, and as such, creating a new opportunity for training and harnessing of these new technologies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE