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Health information dissemination is essential to empower doctors to prevent death of millions of people from major killer diseases due to unawareness and lack of resources in poor countries. There lies a big ‘10/90’ gap between the magnitude of global health problem and distribution of health resources between developed and developing nations. The existing system is facing serious challenges because of mismatch between the burden of infectious diseases and scarcity of adequate budget to combat these diseases. The World Health Organization started HINARI to provide online medical journals to over 100 developing nations. National Medical Library (India) also started ERMED (Electronic Resources in MEDicine), online journal consortium to provide global medical literature to medical professionals.
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Chattopadhyay, A. (2008). Empowering Doctors through Information and Knowledge. In: Buchanan, G., Masoodian, M., Cunningham, S.J. (eds) Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. ICADL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_63
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