Expanding telemedicine to reduce the burden on the healthcare systems and poverty in Africa for a post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reformation

作     者：Tosin Yinka Akintunde Oluseye David Akintunde Taha Hussein Musa Muhideen Sayibu Angwi Enow Tassang Linda M.Reed Shaojun Chen Tosin Yinka Akintunde;Oluseye David Akintunde;Taha Hussein Musa;Muhideen Sayibu;Angwi Enow Tassang;Linda M.Reed;Shaojun Chen

作者机构：Department of Demography and StatisticsFaculty of Social SciencesObafemi Awolowo UniversityIle-IfeOsun State 220282Nigeria Department of SociologySchool of Public AdministrationHohai UniversityJiangsuNanjing 211100China Management Science EngineeringSchool of Economics and FinanceJiangsu UniversityZhenjiangJiangsu 212013China Biomedical Research InstituteDarfur CollegeNyalaSouth Darfur 63313Sudan Department Epidemiology and Health StatisticsSchool of Public HealthSoutheast UniversityNanjingJiangsu 210009China Department of Philosophy of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhui 230026China Meten International Education GroupNanjingJiangsu 200009China 

出 版 物：《Global Health Journal》 (全球健康杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第5卷第3期

页      面：128-134页

学科分类：02[经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020105[经济学-世界经济] 

主　　题：Telemedicine Resource-poor Health issues Poverty alleviation Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) Post-COVID-19 reformation Africa 

摘      要：The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)global public health emergency,has exposed the fragility of health *** to healthcare became a scarce commodity as healthcare providers and resource-poor popula­tions became victims of the novel corona ***,this study focuses on Africa’s readiness to integrate telemedicine into the weak health systems and its adoption may help alleviate poor healthcare and poverty after *** conducted a narrative review through different search strategies in Scopus on January 20,2021,to identify available literature reporting implementation of various telemedicine modes in Africa from January 1,2011 to December 31,*** summarized 54 studies according to geographies,field,and implementation *** results show a willingness to adopt telemedicine in the resource-poor settings and hard-to-reach populations,which will bring relief to the inadequate healthcare systems and alleviate poverty of those who feel the burden of healthcare cost the *** adequate government financing,telemedicine promises to enhance the treating of communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as support health *** can also alleviate poverty among vulnerable groups and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with adequate government ***,given the lack of funding in Africa,the challenges in implementing telemedicine require global and national strategies before it can yield promising *** is especially true in regards to alleviating the multidimensionality of poverty in post-COVID-19 Africa.