Ignorance is not Strength: the need for a Global Evidence Base for Cancer Control in Developing Countries
Mark lodge, Associate Fellow, Particle Therapy Research Institute, University of Oxford In the...
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Category: Knowledge management
The Cochrane Collaboration, its mission and the value of systematic reviews
The Cochrane Collaboration’s primary purpose is to produce systematic reviews to inform decision-making in health care for patients and carers, health professionals, policy-makers and other stakeholders.
Read MoreThe future of cancer information and dissemination in developing countries
Access to information is described by some as “a human right”. The solution to delivering such an ideal is now within our grasp. Whereas content on the internet has exploded in volume and heterogeneity of subject material, the “access” has been blocked by economic and to a lesser extent technological constraints. the latter are dissolving as the margins between developed and developing countries blur.
Read MoreOpen educational resources for cancer: four Years of Progress 2008–12
Open Educational Resources for Cancer (OERC), an affiliate of INCTR, was established in 2009 and its website, www.oerc.merlot.org, was launched at the 2009 INCTR annual meeting in Antalya, Turkey.
Read MoreIgnorance is not Strength: the need for a Global Evidence Base for Cancer Control in Developing Countries (old)
In the Introduction to his pamphlet Common Sense published in 1776, Thomas Paine wrote “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right”1. This is demonstrably true when it comes to the marshalling of published evidence relevant to cancer control in low- and middle-income countries.
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