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标题：Technology, innovation and health equity
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作者：Hildy Fong ; Eva Harris
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：2015
卷号：93
期号：7
页码：438-438A
DOI：10.2471/BLT.15.155952
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：Innovative technologies have enormous potential to improve human well-being. However, technological progress does not guarantee equitable health outcomes. As advances in technology redefine the ways people, systems and information interact, resource-poor communities are often excluded. Where technological fixes have been imposed on communities, the results have included abandoned equip- ment, incompatible computer programs and ineffective policies.