Prospects of telemedicine during and post COVID-19: highlighting the environmental health implications.
Prospects of telemedicine during and post COVID-19: highlighting the environmental health implications.
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10.4314/mmj.v32i4.11
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2020-12
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Adejumo OA
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Adejumo OA;Adejumo OA
2019 年底爆发的 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 对全球事件的正常进程产生了严重影响。大多数国家为遏制冠状病毒的传播而实施封锁、检疫和隔离措施，这导致了信息、通信和技术 (ICT) 解决方案的快速发展，以最大限度地减少封锁的影响，并作为正常日常身体互动的替代方案。远程医疗涉及由合格的卫生专业人员使用信息通信技术提供医疗保健服务，在距离是关键因素的情况下交换有效信息，从而提高获得医疗保健服务的机会。使用信息通信技术作为改善医疗保健服务获取和应对肆虐的流行病的工具是许多国家接受和考虑的选择之一。事实上，有迹象表明，在后疫情时期，远程医疗作为当前传统医疗实践的补充选择将继续存在。向远程医疗的转变会对健康和环境健康产生严重影响，应谨慎行事。人们发现，对产生的电子废物管理不善是造成环境污染和影响人体主要器官的健康危害的原因。各国，特别是发展中国家的国家，缺乏有效实施适当管理电子废物所需政策的基础设施。因此，非常有必要采取适当的措施来减轻向远程医疗转变的潜在危险影响。
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in late 2019 had severe implications on the normal course of events across the globe. The imposition of lockdown, quarantine, and isolation measures by most countries to curtail the spread of the coronavirus led to the rapid development of information, communication, and technological (ICT) solutions to minimize the effect of the lockdown, and as an alternative to normal day-to-day physical interactions. Telemedicine involves the delivery of health care services by qualified health professionals using ICT for the exchange of valid information where distance is a critical factor, thus enhancing access to health care services. The use of ICT as a tool to improve access to health care services and for tackling the raging pandemic was one of the options embraced and considered by many countries. Indeed, there are indications that the use of telemedicine as a complementary option to current traditional medical practice will continue in the post-COVID period. The shift to telemedicine has severe health and environmental health implications and should be done with caution. Poor management of generated electronic waste was found to be responsible for environmental pollution and health hazards affecting major organs of the human body. Countries, especially those in the developing world, lack infrastructure for effective implementation of policies required to appropriately manage electronic waste. Therefore, it is highly imperative that adequate measures are put in place to mitigate the potential hazardous effects of the shift to telemedicine.
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