ICTs for Health, Education, and Socioeconomic Policies: Regional Cases

ICTs for Health, Education, and Socioeconomic Policies: Regional Cases

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 340

ISBN13: 9781466636439|ISBN10: 1466636432|EISBN13: 9781466636446

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3643-9

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Advancing technologies play an important role in the interactions between health, education, and socioeconomic policies. The subsequent outcomes between these areas require a better understanding and assessment in order to pursue further efficient coordination.

ICTs for Health, Education and Socioeconomic Policies: Regional Cases discusses the benefits that can be gained from the interactions between health, education, and socioeconomic areas. Providing a regional focus on the Southern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Arab economies, this book is essential for researchers, scholars, developers, policy makers, and graduate students interested in these specific regions and studies.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Fragmentation, Interdependencies, and Assessments

Chapter 1

Need of a Balance between Fragmented and Coordinated Decision-Making (pages 1-24)

This chapter looks at fragmentation and implications in different decision-making contexts with a focus on new technology and enterprise creation in developing economies. Coordination is introduced as the response to external effects...

Chapter 2

Insights to the Interconnections of Health, Education, and Other Wealth Components (pages 25-47)

This chapter is devoted to showing the levels of manifestation of interconnections in the area of economic and social development with a focus on health, education, and other wealth components. It describes the existing...

Chapter 3

Theoretical Model and Foundations for Assessing Interactions of Health, Education, and Economic Outcomes (pages 48-70)

The statistical technique of variance and covariance analysis is widely used in the physical sciences to identify and test inter-relations and interactions. While this technique is also used in the social sciences context, especially...

Chapter 4

Descriptive Statistics, Regression Analysis, and Tests of Hypotheses of Interdependencies of Health, Education, and Economic Outcomes (pages 71-102)

This chapter is composed of two major parts. The first one measures interactions and interconnections between health and education using aggregate data on South Mediterranean countries. It focuses on Principal Components Analysis...

Interdependencies and ICTs per Sector

Chapter 5

ICTs and Socioeconomic Performance with Focus on ICTs and Health (pages 104-125)

This chapter shows how interconnections do exist within the same sector and how ICTs can provide useful coordinating functions in the sector of health care. This is based on how e-health and other technological variants have been...

Chapter 6

ICTs, Youth, Education, Health, and Prospects of Further Coordination (pages 126-145)

Despite the important role of youth, large portions of this group are often marginalized. Among the most common tools to promote youth in developing countries are ICTs. This chapter investigates the use of ICTs for youth promotion in...

Chapter 7

Women Empowerment and ICTs in Developing Economies (pages 146-164)

The revolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world; yet this revolution is associated with several issues. One of the main issues is the gender digital divide that has...

Chapter 8

ICTs and Coordination for Poverty Alleviation (pages 165-189)

In recent decades, calls for poverty alleviation have increased significantly in both developed and developing countries. Relatively, ICTs have been viewed as offering helpful tools for poverty reduction. This chapter investigates...

Socioeconomic Issues and Policies

Chapter 9

The Triple Helix as a Model for Coordination with Potential for ICTs (pages 191-210)

Promising frameworks have been developed to ensure that different players can have benefits from economic and social activities with high levels of interdependencies. Among these frameworks, the triple helix model constitutes an...

Chapter 10

Socioeconomic Reforms, Human Development, and the Millennium Development Goals with ICTs for Coordination (pages 211-229)

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is an international effort engaging all countries and mainly the developing ones towards the reduction of health, education, and other deficits by 2015. Information and Communication...

Chapter 11

Social Deficits, Social Cohesion, and Prospects from ICTs (pages 230-251)

This chapter investigates the multiplicity of the social deficits occurring in most Arab countries. It also assesses the extent and magnitude of such deficits and looks at their interactions. Further needs for human development and...

Chapter 12

Risk Factors, Health, Education, and Poverty: Can ICTs Help1? (pages 252-277)

Other complicating and risk factors are introduced to show the extent of interdependencies between health and education. The situation of women and children, besides the series of risks and uncertainties faced, impose more advanced...

Chapter 13

Implications of the Findings and Prospects for Further Coordination (pages 278-296)

This last chapter summarizes the most important findings from the previous chapters of this book. It places emphasis on fragmentation and scatted decisions as likely sources of economic and social inefficiencies when externalities or...

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