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Designing Simulations for Health Managers in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Adherence to ehealth Services

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The aim of this work is to study the way health managers may adopt ehealth services, in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 11 % of the world’s population, yet bears 24 % of the global disease burden, and commands less than one percent of global health expenditures. In such a critical situation, questions of health management, efficiency and performance take another dimension. Designing specific ehealth services for SSA countries implies consequently to have precise understandings of the challenges faced by health actors, of health practices existing in those environments, but also of actors’ adherence to IT tools. Accordingly, we have created a serious game, especially intended to health managers. Managers’ adherence to ehealth services is measured on the basis of four indicators: governance practices and adherence to partnerships, adherence to ehealth services, and country’s given critical situation.

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Notes

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    Detailed calculations are available on request. The database can be found on WHO website, for the years 2009 and 2010.

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    See Reich [10] and Widdus [16].

  3. 3.

    Chi-square tests of association. Calculations available on request.

  4. 4.

    For detailed discussions concerning debriefing, see Crookall [6].

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    http://itystudio.com/en/

Abbreviations

SSA:

Sub-Saharan Africa

ESA:

European Space Agency

NGO:

Non-Governmental Organization

WHO:

World Health Organization

GDP:

Gross Domestic Product

GNP:

Gross National Product

WHS:

World Health Survey

PPP:

Public Private Partnerships

HDI:

Human Development Index

NCD:

Non Communicable Diseases

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This research is part of the work developed by a consortium: ‘ehealth for Sub Saharan Africa’ (eHSA). This consortium is led by Logica-UK (now part of CGI). It has been created in response to a proposition issued by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the financial support of LuxDev, Luxemburg government, and Europe–Africa Union. The consortium gathers consultants in new technology (Logica-UK), health professionals (Alter), academic researchers (France Business School) and NGOs such as Amref, Raft or Merlin. The aim of this work is to combine applied and academic outcomes to provide countries with solutions to improve their health systems and better respond to the need of their population.

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  1. France Business School, 1, Rue Leo Delibes, BP 535, 37205, Tours Cedex 3, France

    Miia Parnaudeau

  2. CGI-Space Applications, Keats House, The Office Park, Springfield Drive, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 7LP, UK

    Hervé Garcia

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  2. Faculty of Education, Science, Technology & Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  3. Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Paul Anderson

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Parnaudeau, M., Garcia, H. (2014). Designing Simulations for Health Managers in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Adherence to ehealth Services. In: Ma, M., Jain, L., Anderson, P. (eds) Virtual, Augmented Reality and Serious Games for Healthcare 1. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54816-1_6

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