Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : information needs of health care workers in developing countries: a literature review with a focus on Africa | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Review Information needs of health care workers in developing countries a literature review with a focus on Africa Neil Pakenham-Walsh 1 and Frederick Bukachi1 2 Address 1Global Healthcare Information Network Charlbury Oxford UK and 2Department of Medical Physiology University of Nairobi Nairobi Kenya Email Neil Pakenham-Walsh - Frederick Bukachi - Corresponding author Published 8 April 2009 Received 21 April 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 30 doi 1478-4491-7-30 Accepted 8 April 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 30 2009 Pakenham-Walsh and Bukachi licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Health care workers in developing countries continue to lack access to basic practical information to enable them to deliver safe effective care. This paper provides the first phase of a broader literature review of the information and learning needs of health care providers in developing countries. A Medline search revealed 1762 papers of which 149 were identified as potentially relevant to the review. Thirty-five of these were found to be highly relevant. Eight of the 35 studies looked at information needs as perceived by health workers patients and family community members 14 studies assessed the knowledge of health workers and 8 looked at health care practice. The studies suggest a gross lack of knowledge about the basics on how to diagnose and manage common diseases going right across the health workforce and often associated with suboptimal ineffective and dangerous .
