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!