Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2003.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Paul G. Farnham, committee chair; Patricia G. Ketsche , Douglas S. Noonan (Ga. Tech.), Shiferaw Gurmu, Karen J. Minyard, William S. Custer, committee members. Description based on contents viewed June 11, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-153).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, December 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 19, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Univ., Diss.--London, 2005.

Thesis (M.M. (ICT Policy and Regulation))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2013. / The extraordinary growth in mobile telecommunications and advances in innovative application development has evolved into a new field of e-health, which includes mobile health (m-health) among others. m-Health is a new technology that is deployed in the Tshwane City health clinic named Daspoort as one of the national health insurance pilots. m-Health has revolutionised the way primary health care is administered in Daspoort in particular and in Tshwane City in general. The purpose of this case study is to establish lessons learned in the implementation of m-health as an alternative to bridging the health access gap. The study is meant to provide a library of lessons learnt and good practices in providing primary health services through the use of mobile technology, in this case m-health. The findings from this research suggest that m-health promotes efficiency and improves access. The results revealed that m-health poses challenges for practitioners in the absence of an e-health policy to fully cater for m-health. The implementation of m-health without a supportive legal framework is a risky exercise for both health professionals and community health-workers. Lack of clear guidelines from the National Department of Heajth in the implementation of m-health brings along a sense of vulnerability among health practitioners should things go unexpectedly wrong. In summary these are some of the key lessons learned: (i) Operating outside a mhealth policy and legal framework is very risky. (ii) Poor co-ordination of initiatives as a result of the lack of a collaborative policy and regulation results in silo efforts which lead to weak results. (iii) Community health workers, although they are part of the mhealth project are not covered by any legal framework; something that can expose them to criminal risk. (iv) m-health policy and legal vacuum result in a poor buy in of mhealth projects as managers are not accountable to take the project forward (v) Poor end of project planning as funded by donors leads to the death of m-health.

Thesis (M.M. (ICT Policy and Regulation))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2013. / The use of information and communication technologies in health care system can enhance equitable access to health care services and health information, even for the most marginalised communities in South Africa. The effective implementation of such applications in the health care system is dependent on the inclusive e-health policy development process bringing together the views of all the different role players. This research paper is a qualitative case study which looks into the extent to which the e-health policy development process in the Republic of South Africa has involved the active participation of all the relevant role players. The policy process network (PPN) approach introduced by Parag (2005) has been utilised to guide the methodology employed, the selection of the participants in the study, the design of the research instrument and the analysis of the results. The research study has looked at the extent to which the assessment of the e-health development process is aligned to the policy process network (PPN) approach. This policy assessment has not followed all the elements employed in the PPN as the policy under investigation is still in its infancy stage. However, the PPN approach employed has assisted in detecting the weaknesses of the e-health policy and the e-health policy process. If applied correctly, the framework can contribute to the formulation of a policy that is more effective. In view of the research findings, it emerges that there is a centralised approach into e-health policy development process. The centralised approach has shown its own weaknesses as highlighted in the limited participation of local government, communities and the healthcare implementers. The recommendations are important for the National and Provincial Department of Health policy makers to note the complexity of e-health which requires a sophisticated and encompassing coordination and collaboration system of all the networks. Without such a system the role players would just wield their power instead of working together in the e-health policy development process.