COMMUNICATION METHODS AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

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This thesis paper tries to figure out ‘the importance of health communication and telemedicine technology for the integral growth of healthcare management in the rural and remote area of India’. In some of the rural areas of India the telemedicine technology is implemented successfully and the people in that area are receiving better healthcare services than before. This technology is quite new in the country like India and lot of work has to be done in future to increase the use of this newly developed technology to deliver quality of healthcare service and thus to improve the health status rural and remote population.

India is having a huge population and most of the people live in rural areas. Majority of them don’t have proper access to education and healthcare services. So there is need of good health communication to improve delivery of healthcare services. By this, necessary knowledge can be imparted to the people that will help them to improve their own health status all the time. Telemedicine might be useful in these areas as it helps to have a successful communication in between the healthcare professionals and patients who are present at different places. This paper points out the actual necessity of telemedicine technology which is one of the tools of having health communication and the opinion of the healthcare professionals as well as the patients regarding its importance.

In this interpretive study based thesis, fourteen interviews of healthcare professionals and a survey of twenty patients by using a questionnaire have been conducted to illustrate the importance of health communication (mainly health education) and telemedicine.

Acknowledgement

First and foremost, I am heartily thankful to my honourable supervisor Eivor Oborn, whose encouragement, guidance and support from the initial to the final level enabled me to develop an understanding of the subject. Your active cooperation and valuable inspiration have been highly important for me to complete this study. I have learnt a lot from you.

I would like to convey my sincere thanks to Dr Neminath Magadum, the Chairman of “The Gomtesh Education Society’s Ashirwad Hospital” for