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

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

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

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The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)global public health emergency,has exposed the fragility of health systems.Access to healthcare became a scarce commodity as healthcare providers and resource-poor populations became victims of the novel corona virus.Therefore,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 COVID-19.We 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 31,2020.We summarized 54 studies according to geographies,field,and implementation methods.The 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 most.With adequate government financing,telemedicine promises to enhance the treating of communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as support health infrastructure.It can also alleviate poverty among vulnerable groups and hard-to-reach communities in Africa with adequate government financing.However,given the lack of funding in Africa,the challenges in implementing telemedicine require global and national strategies before it can yield promising results.This is especially true in regards to alleviating the multidimensionality of poverty in post-COVID-19 Africa.

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《全球健康杂志（英文）》 |2021年第3期|128-134|共7页
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Tosin Yinka Akintunde; Oluseye David Akintunde; Taha Hussein Musa; Muhideen Sayibu; Angwi Enow Tassang; Linda M.Reed; Shaojun Chen;
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Department of Demography and Statistics;

Faculty of Social Sciences;

Obafemi Awolowo University;

Ile-Ife;

Osun State 220282;

Nigeria;

Department of Sociology;

School of Public Administration;

Hohai University;

Jiangsu;

Nanjing 211100;

China;

Management Science Engineering;

School of Economics and Finance;

Jiangsu University;

Zhenjiang;

Jiangsu 212013;

China;

Biomedical Research Institute;

Darfur College;

Nyala;

South Darfur 63313;

Sudan;

Department Epidemiology and Health Statistics;

School of Public Health;

Southeast University;

Nanjing;

Jiangsu 210009;

China;

Department of Philosophy of Science and Technology;

University of Science and Technology of China;

Hefei;

Anhui 230026;

China;

Meten International Education Group;

Nanjing;

Jiangsu 200009;

China;

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

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

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