Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayse Emel

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Contributions and Experiences from Turkey

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayse Emel Önal
• Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty,
  Department of Public Health

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• e-health is a relatively recent term for
  healthcare practice which is supported by
  electronic processes and communication (WHO HQ
  2002 Mitchell 1999).

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• Telemedicine is a rapidly developing application
  of clinical medicine where medical information is
  transferred via telephone, the Internet or other
  networks for the purpose of consulting, and
  sometimes remote medical procedures or
  examinations.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemedicine

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• ESA (European Space Agency) began their
  telemedicine studies in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in
  1996. It was communicated between two Italian
  Hospitals and mobile Sarajevo Hospital via
  telemedicine.
• Avrupa Uzay Dairesinin Teletip Projeleri-1, TSK
  Saglik Komutanligi, Askeri Tip Teknolojileri
  Bülteni, Sayi2, Ekim 2005, Syf23-25,
  http//www.lstat.com/News/customer-files/Turkey.pd
  f

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• The Pew Internet American Life survey reported
  that in 2000 fifty-two million adult Americans,
  55 of the Internet-user population, have turned
  to Internet sources to seek health information
  (http//www.pewinternet.org/reports/reports.asp?Re
  port26 SectionReportLevel2FieldLevel2IDID12
  3).
• The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA,
  http//apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/sess
  ion_9354.htm

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• TurkeyInternet Usage Stats and Market
  ReportInternet Usage Statistics16,000,000
  Internet users as of Sept./06, 21.1 of the
  population, according to the ITU.
• http//www.internetworldstats.com/euro/tr.htm

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• The Health Ministry of Turkey started the
  Telemedicine Project in 2007, on selected pilot
  cities Ankara, Rize, Kayseri, Amasya, and
  Erzurum.
• http//forum.vatan.tc/saglikta-teletip-donemi-basl
  iyor-t9640.0.htmlBozkurt H, Saglikta Teletip
  Dönemi, http//www.haber7.com/haber/20070421/Sagli
  kta-teletip-donemi.php

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• Geographical Information Systems will be used in
  this Telemedicine Project and the following the
  diseases and the patients will be more easily.

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• Not only the patients but also the healthy people
  will be followed with this system. 15-49 aged
  female population, vaccines, newborns will be
  followed. Communicable diseases, cancers, and
  other non communicable diseases will be followed
  easily too.
• http//www.timeturk.com/Saglikta-uydu-teknolojisi-
  donemi-41971-haberi.html

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• Supercourse, is a repository of lectures on
  global health and prevention designed to improve
  the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a
  network of over 64000 scientists in 174 countries
  who are sharing for free a library of 3623
  lectures in 26 languages.
• The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO
  Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh,
  with core developers Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Faina
  Linkov, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D., Ph.D. and
  Eugene Shubnikov M.D..
• super1_at_pitt.edu 

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• Question  What is the best way to improve health
  training/research?
• Answer  Improve the lectures.
• http//www.pitt.edu/super1/assist/sum.htm

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• Question  How do we improve health
  training/research lectures.
• Answer  Have faculty worldwide share their
  lectures.

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• Question  Will faculty share lectures?
• Answer  Yes,  The Supercourse has 58,000 faculty
  from 174 countries who created a Library of
  Lectures with

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• One of the most traumatic days in life is
  teaching one's first class. New teachers spend
  weeks preparing the first lecture, and it still
  is usually poor. Why can not they use the
  template lectures of experienced teachers?

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• Supercourse originally funded three times by
  NASA, and by the National Library of Medicine. 
• Library of Lectures with passionate scientific
  lectures was built from across the world.  
• Supercourse developed a technology for
  inexpensive, sustainable global training. The
  program consists of

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•   Open Source   A Global faculty is developing
  and sharing their best, most passionate lectures
  in the area of Prevention and the Internet using
  an open source model. This benefits all.  The
  experienced faculty member can beef up their
  lectures that are not cutting edge.  New
  instructors reduce preparation time and have
  better lectures. Faculty in developing countries
  have access to current prevention information for
  the first time.

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• Statistical Quality Assurance  We have
  established a Deming Model of statistical quality
  control to monitor lectures over time.

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•   Support Educators The Library of Lectures
  consists of exciting lectures by academic
  prevention experts in the field.  The classroom
  teacher  takes them out for free like a library
  book.  We coach the teacher rather than
  directly teaching students from a distance.  

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• Text books  British Medical Association put text
  books on line for us

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• Multilingual  For global use, the first lecture
  is in 8 languages. We are experimenting with
  machine translation as well. We have lectures in
  26 languages.

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• Faculty  Nine Noble Prize winners, the US
  Surgeon General,  31 IOM (Institute of Medicine)
  members,  39 AES (American Epidemiologic Society)
  members, 43 NAS (The National Academy of Science)
  members and other top people contributed
  lectures.

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• JIT lectures  Within days after a disaster
  lectures are provided, e.g. the Bam Earthquake,
  and Tsunami

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• Mirrored Servers and CDs  Supercourse have many
  mirrored servers in Egypt,  Sudan, China,
  Mongolia and others. Supercourse have distributed
  20,000 Supercourse CDs

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• I got acquainted with Supercourse in 2001, after
  the Congress of Epidemiology, Toronto, Canada.
• I have been interested in Prof. Ron LaPortes
  E-mail newsletters and the Supercourse CD. After
  that our communication with the supercourse team
  began(2001).
• Prof. Ron LaPortes Director, WHO Collaborating
  Center, Professor of Epidemiology,
• Uni. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Supercourse web sites

• What is the Supercourse?
• Overview Editorial Board of the
  Supercourse Developers Internet Resources
  Publications Supercourse Mirror Sites
  Supercourse Newsletters Archive
• Want to join us?        
• On-line Registration  Instructions for authors
  CD/DVD downloadMMPH program in Pittsburgh!
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• Supercourse Lectures
• Lectures by Topic  Lectures by Author Lectures
  by Key Words New Lectures All Lectures
• Golden Lecture of Prevention  Global Health
  lecture 
• Supercourse Special Lectures 
• Supercourse Courses and Special PagesSupercourse
  Legacy LecturesSupercourse Lectures Available in
  

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• Ayse Emel Onal, Istanbul Tip Fakultesi, Halk
  Sagligi, Turkey
• Adolescent Health (in Turkish) School Health 
  (In Turkish) Gerontology (in Turkish)Epidemiolog
  y of chronic diseases in TurkishFamily Planning
  in Turkey (in Turkish)Mother and Child Health in
  Turkey (in Turkish)Health education in Turkey
  (in Turkish)Health Policies in Turkey (In
  Turkish)Occupational Health in Turkey Part I  
   Part II (in Turkish)Epidemiology of infectious
  disease (Examples from Turkey) (In
  Turkish)Environmental Health Examples from
  Turkey (in Turkish)Premarriage counsultancy and
  genetic information Part I (In Turkish)    Part
  II

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• THE 99 MARMARA EARTHQUAKE AND AFTERWARDS  (in
  Spanish)VULNERABILITY, MITIGATION AND
  PREPAREDNESS AT NATURAL DISASTERS THE CASE OF
  TURKISH EARTHQUAKES
• EFFECTS ON ECOLOGIC CYCLE AND POSSIBLE ECONOMIC
  DIMENSIONS OF CREMATORIUM
• To provide drinking and using water in
  Kücükcekmece-Istanbul, and behaviors about water
  use (in Turkish)
• Knowledge and behavior research on blood donation
  in drug sector workers in Istanbul (in Turkish)
• Healthy nutrition and menopause (in Turkish)

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• SCIENTIFIC NETWORKING AND THE GLOBAL HEALTH
  SUPERCOURSE FOR THE PREVENTION OF THREAT FROM MAN
  MADE AND NATURAL DISASTERS    
• August 8-10, 2005, Kaunas, Lithuania

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The Section of Advanced Research Workshop

• Session 3 -Earthquake mitigation  The 99 Marmara
  Earthquatke and AfterwardsAyse Emel ÖNAL 
• Earthquakes in TurkeyYakut Irmak Ozden 
• Experience of implementation of standardized
  trauma treatment methodology Advanced Trauma Life
  Support courses (ATLS) in LithuaniaSalvijus
  Milašius

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• The Global health network is designed to link
  together Information Technology with Global
  health. Supercourse team also need to recognize
  that Global health is interdisciplinary with
  people from engineering, public health,
  anthropology, physics, law, who are needed as
  much if not more than clinicians.

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• The Internet and Prevention Education is the
  pathway towards improved global health. A system
  like this has all the characteristics needed to
  improve health in that it attacks multiple
  diseases, it is wide spread, it is powerfully
  effective, it is inexpensive and sustainable.
• Global Health Network Supercourse,
  http//www.pitt.edu/super1/lecture/lec20851/003.h
  tm

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• The supercourse team have published over 121
  papers in leading medical journals including
  Nature, Lancet, British Medical Journal, Military
  Medicine, Nature Medicine, PNAS among others. 
  Their web pages have been identified as in the
  top 100 by PC Magazine, and one of the top 11
  content pages by the Lancet.  They receive 75
  million hits a year.