Mobile Global Health Supercourse in the Former Soviet Union countries Eugene Shubnikov (Russia),...

Mobile Global Health Supercourse in the Former Soviet

Union countries

Eugene Shubnikov (Russia),

Faina Linkov (USA),

Ronald LaPorte (USA)

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Суперкурс Глобального Здравоохранения в странах Бывшего Советского Союза с использованием мобильных устройств

Education and information sharing is important to preventing all forms of

diseases and conditions. 

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What ways we may use for What ways we may use for improve Health in FSU countries?improve Health in FSU countries?

• Improve prevention

• Reach everybody

• Make it inexpensive

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RussiaInternet Usage and Marketing Report

YEAR Users Population % Pop. Usage Source

2000 3,100,000 145,149,035 2.1 % ITU

2007 29,400,000 141,377,752 20.8 % POF

2008 38,000,000 140,702,094 27.0 % POF

2009 45,250,000 140,041,247 32.3 % ITU

2010 59,700,000 139,390,205 42.8 % ITU5

Internet and Mobile Users • By June 2010, the number of Internet users in

Russia reached 59,7 millions or 43% of total population, offering a unique opportunity to utilize internet pathways for disease prevention in FSU.

• But…there are about 1,33 cell phones for every one person living in Russia.

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Communications in Russia

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10http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/mobileGHScourse.htm

Google Search for Mobile Global Health

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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/globalhealth/appsMobilePhones.htm

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Health indices for FSUWe may useYouTube too!

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DANTE Project

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Phone in Turkmenistan

• Beeline Uzbekistan

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19Turkmen Jewelry at Metropolitan Museum

Future Steps• We want to marry our work with

those interested in Mobile Technology to build a new discipline called FSU Mobile Global Health. 

• Mobile communications and 

the Internet are among the most dynamic sectors of the economy  in FSU countries. 

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Thank you!