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Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)

Knowledge Exchange Nodes in Public Health: Two successful practical experiences
Jaime Jiménez Pernett, Jose Francisco García Gutiérrez, Pablo Martínez Cabrero, Sergio Minué Lorenzo

The importance of the traditional core public health areas of epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, health services administration, and social and behavioural sciences is still paramount. However, public health professionals will be better prepared for the future if they achieve competency in other eight areas: informatics, genomics, communication, cultural competence, community-based participatory research, global health, policy and law, and public health ethics. For many School...

Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

Blog Based Teaching Method in a Health Management Master
Clara Bermudez Tamayo, Jaime Jimenez Pernett, José Francisco García Gutiérrez, Sergio Minué Lorenzo, Francisco Sánchez-laguna

Background The blog has become an essential communication and information-sharing Internet-based tool in certain segments of our society. Within education, it is becoming much more widely used and will continue to expand rapidly as institutions and teachers learn about its adaptability for the classroom. Concerning health education, some recent studies strongly recommend the need for effective research in determining best practices and finding novel ways of combining Web 2.0 technologies in...

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

Mapping Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Genetic Testing Offer on the Internet
Jaime Jimenez Pernett, Pascal Ducournau, Clara Bermúdez Tamayo, José Francisco García Gutiérrez, Delio Lucena Piquero

Background Recently, the demand for genetic testing among general population has been proometed by: 1) The proliferation of websites and marketing campaigns that offer all types of genetic tests (Cambon-Thomsen et al, 2009) and 2) The increase in press articles published. Therefore, the demand for genetic testing may begin to grow as any commercial product, when is available to the public and its diffusion is done through advertising. The globalized nature of this market conveyed by the Inte...

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