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  2. I3M
  3. 2019
  4. EMSS
  5. 10.46354/i3m.2019.emss.032

Sustainable technologies for health education in Low and Middle Income Countries

  • a Elisa Ferrara  ,
  • b Silvana Dellepiane  ,
  • c Marco Frascio  
  • a,b,c Dept. of Naval, Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (DITEN), University of Genoa, Via all'Opera Pia, 11a, 16145 Genoa - Italy
  • c Dept. of Surgery Sciences (DISC) University of Genoa, Largo R. Benzi, 8 16132 Genoa - Italy
Cite as
Ferrara E., Dellepiane S., Frascio M. (2019). Sustainable technologies for health education in Low and Middle Income Countries. Proceedings of the 31st European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2019), pp. 226-230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2019.emss.032.

Abstract

Sustainable technologies and collaborative Learning Management Systems (LMS) are investigated according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as possible ways to improve, towards distance learning systems, education and towards it, social empowerment and development. Web -based systems, customized for academic teaching in medicine and surgery field, could help the development of cooperation among universities as well as research empowerment and exchange, useful for all the involved stakeholders. Different uses and approaches to the technological solution allow different participants to model and interact with the project despite also difficulties and environmental gaps that could occur in some LMIC.

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