博茨瓦纳的公文包实验室:一份立场文件

V. Narasimhan
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在非洲农村环境中检测和管理传染病和非传染性疾病提出了许多结构、句法和语义问题。此外,据观察,结核病等传染病和癌症、糖尿病、心血管疾病和慢性呼吸道疾病等非传染性疾病在撒哈拉以南非洲国家呈上升趋势,估计约占死亡人数的25% (Bloomfield等人,2014)[8]。在博茨瓦纳,非传染性疾病占该国所有死亡人数的三分之一以上(世卫组织非传染性疾病国家概况,2014年)[9]。不幸的是,对于非洲现金匮乏的部分地区来说,医疗保健方面的额外支出需求是巨大的。减少与非传染性疾病有关的死亡的一个办法是通过数据收集和适当干预及早发现和控制。在撒哈拉以南非洲国家,大多数人口生活在农村地区,那里获得保健设施的机会非常有限。在这种情况下,低成本的流动医疗保健设施以及相关的信息和通信技术(ICT)将大有帮助。本文研究了“公文包里的实验室”技术在博茨瓦纳和其他南部非洲发展共同体国家cd / ncd管理中的应用。“公文包式实验室”旨在提供一种便携式实验室诊断工具包,可快速得出结果(约15分钟),可在实验室或卫生保健设施有限的地区使用,只需最少的培训即可使用。它包含所有必要的工具和化学品/试剂,这些工具和化学品/试剂包装在公文包中,以便于携带。此外,“公文包实验室”采用微型高效液相色谱法和智能摄像头、麦克风、信用卡大小的心电图和显微镜,可以在便携式方式下快速有效地进行各种测试。本文详细介绍了在初级保健卫生机构设计和部署“公文包里的实验室”和相关软件工具,以便能够快速进行诊断,并自动生成所产生的医疗记录,将其转换为适当格式,并与不同的卫生信息系统安全地共享。该系统的部署需要根据参与国的语言、法律、安全和其他政策要求对该系统进行调整。作为示范适用性的一部分,试点研究将扩大到所有参与的非洲国家。我们的最终目标是开发一个完全可选的原型。
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Botswana's Lab-In-A-Briefcase: A Position Paper
Detecting and managing communicable and non-communicable diseases in rural settings of Africa raises numerous structural, syntactical and semantic issues. Further, it has been observed that both Communicable Diseases (CDs) such as TB and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory disease, are on the rise in sub-Saharan African countries and estimated to account for about 25% of deaths (Bloomfield et al., 2014) [8]. In Botswana, NCDs account for more than a third of all deaths in the country (WHO NCD country profile, 2014) [9]. For cash-poor part of Africa, this additional spend-requirement in healthcare is unfortunately substantial. One approach to reducing death related to CD/NCD is early detection and control through data collection and appropriate intervention. In sub-Saharan Africa countries, most of the population lives in rural areas where access to healthcare facilities is very limited. In such circumstances, a low-cost and mobile healthcare facility along with associated Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) would be of great assistance. This paper investigates the application of the "lab-in-a-briefcase" technology for the management of CDs/NCDs in Botswana and other SADC countries. The "lab-in-a-briefcase is designed to provide a portable laboratory diagnosis toolkit with rapid results (about 15 minutes) that can be used in areas where access to laboratory or healthcare facility is limited and can be used with minimal training. It contains all the necessary tools and chemicals/reagents which are packaged in a briefcase form so that they can easily be carried. In addition, the Lab-in-a-briefcase employs mini-HPLC and smart camera, microphone, credit card-sized ECG and microscope so that a variety of tests can be performed quickly and efficiently in a portable manner. This paper details the design and deployment of "Lab-in-a-briefcase" and associated software tools at primary care health facilities so that diagnosis can be quickly carried out and the resulting medical records are automatically generated, converted into appropriate format and securely shared with different health information systems. The deployment of this system requires adaptation of the system in the context of the linguistic, legal, security, and other policy requirements of the participating countries. As part of the demonstration of the applicability, pilot studies will be extended to all participating African countries. Our end-objective is to develop a fully optioned prototype.
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