Front Page  

Publications

November/14/2000

Global Health Network/the Supercourse for Epidemiology, Internet and Global Health

 

1.      Sauer F, LaPorte RE, Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Acosta B, Sa ER. Portal to prevention: Towards increasing “Prevention literacy” in the USAF {Letter}. Aviat Space Environ Med 2000;71:1166

2.      Tajima N, Kawamura N. Classroom teaching using the Supercourse . University Time 274: 78-83, 2000 (In Japanese)

3.      Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Acosta B, Sa ER, LaPorte RE. Does the perception of web page downloading speed influence the evaluation of health content? (In press)

4.      Aaron DJ, Sekikawa A, Acosta B, Sa E, LaPorte RE. The impact of Internet technology on epidemiology and public health. (Submitted –Epidemiology)

5.      Chiu WT, LaPorte RE, Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Songer T, Sa ER, Acosta B. The Internet and the Prevention of Head Injuries. (Submitted – Neurotrauma Journal : Jan. 2000)

6.      Aaron DJ, Morris KA, Nixon PA, Martin J, Echement DA, LaPorte RE. Reengineering Epidemiology: Application of Internet technology to intervention studies.  Monograph of the American Heart Association (In press)

7.      Randolph LH Jr., Sauer F,  LaPorte RE, Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ. Information Superiority and Healthy Communities. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine: Feb. 2000 (In Press)

8.      Acosta-Cazares B, Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Sa ER, Rico-Verdín B, LaPorte RE. The Supercourse of Epidemiology: An example of international collaboration. (Spanish) (In Press - Gaceta Sanitaria : Jan.2000)

9.      Global Health Network Faculty. Towards the enhancement of classroom learning.  INET proceedings (In Press).

10.  LaPorte RE, Sauer F, Akazawa S, Sekikawa A, Gamboa C, Aaron DJ, Ze Y, and Zheng H for the Global Health Network. Information Dominance and the Supercourse. Proceedings of the Western Pacific Region Diabetes Information Network (In Press)

11.  Randolph LH Jr., LaPorte RE, Sauer F, Sekikawa A, Sa ER, Aaron DJ, Acosta B. Advanced Classroom Learning (ACL) through civilian-military shareware, Mil Med 2000;165:174-15

12.  Sekikawa A, Suyama A, Yahata K, Tamashiro H, Aaron DJ, LaPorte RE. Supercourse model for web-based education in health. Jpn J Comp Science 1999;6:55-58

13.  Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Acosta B, Nishimura R, Songer TJ, LaPorte RE. Bringing Health onto the Information Superhighway. Oxford illustrated companion to medicine (in press).

14.  Sekikawa A, Sa ER, Acosta B, Aaron DJ, LaPorte RE. An internet mirror site: A means for improving access in developing countries {letter}. Lancet 2000;355:2000

15.  Aaron DJ, Sekikawa A, Acosta B, Sa ER, LaPorte RE. Transnational education: The Global Health Network Supercourse (www.pitt.edu/~super1) {Proceedings}. XX World Congress of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sao Paulo (Brazil), 1999, p129-133.

16.  Sekikawa A, Randolph L, Sa ER, Acosta B, Aaron D, Sauer F, LaPorte RE. Problem:  Boring Lectures, Solution: New Web Formats Brit Med J  http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7232/432

17.  LaPorte RE, Randolph, LM Jr. Sauer F, Sekikawa A, Aaron D.  Information dominance over disease. {letter} Lancet.2000:8;1370-1

18.  Philippe P. LaPorte RE, Sauer F.  Epidemiologic and public health initiatives in telecommunications.  In Press (Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology)

19.  Sa ER, Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Acosta B, LaPorte RE. "Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health" - A web-based educational program for health -. Public Health Forum. No. 27 – Mar. 2000 (In German)

20.  Sauer F, Randolph L, Sekikawa A, Aaron D. LaPorte R. e-Prevention.  Telemed Today 2000;8:23-33

21.  Supercourse Faculty.  Global Cooperation in Higher Education.  Nat Med, 2000, 6, 358

22.  Acosta-Cazares B, Browne E, LaPorte RE, Neuvians D, Rochel de Camargo K, Tapia-Conyer R, Yang Ze. Scientific Colonialism and Safari Research. (Brit Med J ClinMed NetPrints: Jan.2000) http://clinmed.netprints.org/cgi/content/full/2000010008v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=&hits=&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=949255145460_306&FIRSTINDEX=&fdate=12/31/1999&search_url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinmed.netprints.org%2Fcgi%2Fsearch

23.  Delamothe T. BMJ set to sign with PubMed Central, JSTOR, and WorldSpace {News}. Brit Med J 2000;320:8

24.  Philippe P, LaPorte RE, Sauer F. Epidemiologic and public health initiatives in telecommunication. Rev.Bras.Epidemiol. Vol.2, No. ½, 1999

25.  Sauer F, Gamboa C, LaPorte R, Akazawa S, Serror-Markin.  The Human Factor in e-4health.  Proceedings of the Western Pacific Region Diabetes Information Network.

26.   Acosta B. Breaking the language barrier. June, 1999. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/313/7067/1264/b#EL1 (electronic responses)

27.  Ochi G, Shirakawa Y, Asahi S, Toriba M, Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE. Information transmission through the Internet for the Preparedness against Venomous Snakes in the Aftermath of Cambodian Flood in 1997. Jpn J Disast Med 4;1999 (in Japanese)

28.  Sekikawa A, Satoh T. A report on Internet-based Epidemiology Distance Learning. Med Edu 1999; 30: 55-59 (in Japanese)

29.  Sekikawa A, Nishimura R, Satoh T. The Supercourse. J Public Health Prac 1999; 63: 219-22 (in Japanese).

30.  Supercourse Faculty.  The Global Health Network Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health. Telemed J. 1999;5:303-307.

31.  Tajima N, Kawamura N. Clinical Epidemiology and Internet.  http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/2f/2f_3.htm

32.  Tamashiro H, Oshima T, Satoh T, Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE. Supercourse: Environmental Health and Sustainable Development. Jpn J Public Health 1999: 46: 130-136

33.  Yousry A, LaPorte RE. Diabetes Telecommunication, CyberDoc's and the Internet : An Experience from Kuwait. The 1st Pan Arab Congress of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases- Beirut-Lebanon - 20 -23rd October,1999

34.  Yousry A, LaPorte RE, Al-Shatti A. The Internet, The Superhighway, and Distance Education. A Review of Literature. Kuwait Association Medical Journal- October, 1999

35.  Aaron DJ, Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE. McKenzie B. Medicine and the Internet: introducing online resources and technology. Oxford University Press, 1997. 376 pp. Euro J Public Health (Book reviews) 1998; 8: 334-35.

36.  Aaron DJ, Sekikawa A, Sauer F, Patrick J, Nishimura R, Acosta B, LaPorte R.  The reincarnation of biomedical journals as hypertext comic books. Nat Med 1998; ; http://www.medicine.nature.com/web_specials/comics/

37.  Acosta B , Laporte RE, Rubio CF. Educación a través de Internet: El caso del Supercurso de Epidemiología. CADUCEUS en linea 1998 (Revista Médica Electrónica in Spanish); http://www.caduceus.com.pe/en-linea/no-03/supercourse.html

38.  Sekikawa A, Nishimura R, Tajima N, Hoshuyama T, Takizawa Y, Satoh T. The Internet and international collaboration: The Global Health Network Supercourse. Advancement in Diabetology '98 (Tonyobyo-Gaku-no-Shinpo '98) Shindan to Chiryo sha, Tokyo 1998 pp.109-114 (in Japanese)

39.  Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Acosta B, Nishimura R, LaPorte RE. Peer review of grant applications {Letter}. Lancet 1998; 352: 9133.

40.  Takahashi K, Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE, Satoh T, Pan G, Ren A, Okubo T, Yoshimura T. Occupational Lung Diseases and Global Occupational Health on the Net. Occup Med 1998; 48: 3-6.

41.  Yousry A, LaPorte RE, Al-Sayegh, Kanal. The Supercourse Lectures: A Pioneer Experience at teh Asia-Pacific(WHO) Diabetes Epidemiology Course.  The International Tele-Medicine Symposium-Tunesia, 24-26th, 1998

42.  Yousry A, LaPorte RE, A. Al-Shatti A, Wat N, Ogawa K. Eun-Rayong Sa. Disatnce Education and The Internet: The First Lights from Kuwait. The First Arabian Gulf Medical Association Conference- Bahrain - 24-26th, November. 1998.

43.  Wojtczak A, Akazawa S, Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE. Internet and International Health Policy. {Letter} Public Health 1998; 112: 273.

44.  Acosta-Cázares B. Internet in the field of health (Spanish). Epidemiología (México). 1997; 141: 1-2 (in Spanish).

45.  Barinas‑Mitchell EJM, Davis NL, McGuire MT, Aaron DJ, LaPorte RE. Internet connectivity of State Health Departments, United States, 1996. Science Communication 1997;19:164‑75.

46.  Erbey JR, Evans RW, LaPorte RE. Internet technology and clinical laboratory science: The role of the laboratory home page. Laboratory Medicine1997; 28: 58-62.

47.  Gamboa CA, LaPorte RE, Schorse ML. History and Future of Academic Computer Networking in Latin American  and the Caribbean. In: Internet, Telematics and Health. M.Sosa-Iudicissa et al (Eds.). IOS Press, 1997: 293-96.

48.  Marler E, Patrick J. The Internet: An Industry Perspective. In: Internet, Telematics and Health. M.Sosa-Iudicissa et al. (Eds.). IOS Press, 1997:387-388.

49.  Sosa-Iudicissa M, Oliveri N, Gamboa CA, Roberts J. Presentation: Why "Internet, Telematics and Health" ? In: Internet, Telematics and Health. M. Sosa-Iudicissa et al. (Eds.). IOS Press, 1997:xii-xxvii.

50.  Sauer F, Gamboa CA, Schorse ML. Information Technology in Health. In: Internet, Telematics and Health. M.Sosa-Iudicissa et al (Eds.). IOS Press, 1997:47-50.

51.  World Health Organization DiaMond Group on the Internet: LaPorte R, Sekikawa A, Taback S, Stella P, Jarosz-Chobot P, Schneider U, Hasseb-Elrasoul S, Neu A, Mtonga R, Collado F. Diabetes Short Course Training, and the Internet {letter}. Diabetes Care 1997; 20: 232.

52.  LaPorte RE on behalf of the Global Health Network. Internet server with targeted access would cure information deficiency in developing countries {Letter}. Brit Med J 1997; 314: 980.

53.  LaPorte RE. Improving Public Health via the Information Superhighway. Scientist, August 1997.

54.  LaPorte RE, Sekikawa A, Aaron DJ, Nishimura R, Acosta B. Looking to the future: amazon.com and four trends. Brit Med J 1997; 315.

55.  Libman I, LaPorte R for the Global Health Network Task Force. The Global Health Network. Book: Internet, Telematics and Health. M. Sosa-Iudicissa et al. (Eds). IOS Press, 1997; 297-300.

56.  Libman IM, LaPorte RE, Akazawa S, Boostrom E, Glosser C, Marler E, Pretto E,Sauer F, Villasenor A, Young F. The Need for a Global Health Disaster Network. Prehospital Disaster Med, 1997; 24-48.

57.  Ochi G, Shirakawa Y, Tanaka M, Nitta K, Watoh Y, Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE. An Introduction to the Global Health Disaster Network (GHDNet) Jpn J Diast Med 1997; 2: 18-22

58.  Satoh T, Takahashi K, Yahata K, Nakagawa S, Wojtczak A, Takizawa Y, Tajima N, Koyama A, Akazawa S, Higashi T. Yamaguchi N, Sekikawa A. Application of Internet technology in public health Jpn J Public Health. 1997; 44: 518-22 (in Japanese).

59.  Libman I, LaPorte RE. "How Information Systems can Advance Diabetes Program Implementation". International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Bulletin. September 1997; Vol. 42:32-34.

60.  Sekikawa A, Koyama A, Satoh T, Akazawa S, Shimada K, Nishimura R, Higashi T, Yamaguchi N, Tajima N, et al. The New Trends for Practice on Telecommunication applied preventive and environmental medicine. {letter} Prev Environ Med 1997; 2: 45-48.

61.  Sekikawa A, LaPorte RE, Satoh T, Ochi G. Health workers need information from countries with better health indicators than Britain and the US {Letter}. Brit Med J 1997; 314: 1418.

62.  Sekikawa A, LaPorte, Takizawa Y. Minamata and the Global Health Network Proceeding of the International Scientific Meeting '97 "Mercury and Human Health - Proposal from Minamata" National Institute for Minamata Disease, Japan pp1-19, 1997.

63.  Sekikawa A, Satoh T, Ochi G, LaPorte RE. Health workers need information from countries with better health indicatros than Britain and the US {letter}. Brit Med J 1997; 314: 1418.

64.  Sekikawa A, Satoh T, on behalf of the Global Health Network Global Health Network. Telecommunication application to Public Health for the Disease Prevention in the 21st century. J Seizon and Life Sci 1997; 8: 83-95 (in Japanese).

65. Aaron DJ, Boostrom E, LaPorte RE, Libman IM, Marler E, Sauer F, Songer TJ, Villasenor A.  Pennsylvania Health on the Net?  Pa Med 1996; 99: 20-22.

66.  Aaron DJ, LaPorte RE. Obituaries and tributes should be put on to the WorldWide Web {Letter}. Brit Med J 1996; 313: 497.

67. Aaron DJ, Sekikawa A, Libman IM, Iochida L, Barinas-Mitchell E, LaPorte RE.  Telepreventive Medicine.  MD Computing 1996;13: 335-338

68.  Chang Y-F, Portuese E, LaPorte RE. Increasing the shelf-life of review papers{Letter}. Brit Med J 1996; 312: 513.

69.  LaPorte RE for the Global Health Network. Commentary: Telepreventive Medicine-the Autobahn to Health. Brit Med J 1996; 313: 1383-84.

70.  LaPorte RE, Barinas E, Chang Y-F, Libman I. Global Epidemiology and Public Health in the 21st Century: Applications of New Technologies. Ann Epidemiol 1996; 6: 162-67.

71.  LaPorte RE, Hibbitts B. Rights, wrongs, and journals in the age of cyberspace. Brit Med J 1996; 313: 1609-12

72.  LaPorte RE. One stop shopping mall for global health information {letter}.Brit Med J 1996; 312: 1418. Nishimura R, Sekikawa A, Matsushima M, Tajima N, LaPorte RE. It is time to introduce Internet to the field of diabetes {letter}. J Japn Diab Soc 1996; 39: 160-61.

73. Pereira MA, Fitzgerald SJ, LaPorte RE, Dearwater SR, Aaron DJ, Kohl HW.  Exercise science and the information superhighway {letter}.  Med Sci Sports Exercise 1996; 28: 931-32.

74.  Sekikawa A, Libman I, Iochida L, LaPorte R, Boostrom E. People will be able to surf across languages for health data on the Internet. Brit Med J 1996; 313: 1264-65.

75.  Songer TJ. Diabetes and the Internet. World Diabetes. 1996; 2. http://www.who.int/ncd/dia/index.htm

76.  Wang K, LaPorte RE, XU T, Fu G. Public health and telecommunication. Chin J Epidemiology 1996; 17: 172-74.

77.  Ferguson EW, Villasenor A, Cunnion S, de Ville de Goyet C, Young F, LaPorte RE. A global health disaster network is needed {Letter}. Brit Med J 1995; 310: 1412

78.  Ferguson EW, Sarkisian A, Young F, de Ville de Goyet C. Telemedicine for National and International Disaster Response. J Med Syst 1995; 19: 121-23.

79.  Global Health Network Task Force. Towards a Global Health Network. Current Issues in Public Health 1995; 1: 160-64.

80.  LaPorte R, Villasenor A, Gamboa C, Boostrom E, Marler E, Sauer F, Akazawa S, Glosser C, Libman I. The Global Health Network. In: INET'95 Conference Proceedings, Volume 2. Klinam Chon (ed). Internet Society, Reston VA. 1995; 1027-29.

81.  LaPorte RE, Akazawa S, Drash A, Gamboa C, Lee HK, Libman IM, Marler E,Orschiedt S, Songer T, Tajima N. American Diabetes Association and the Internet. Diabetes Care 1995; 18: 890-95.

82.  LaPorte RE, Akazawa S, Gamboa C, Maclure M, Marler E, Sauer F, Shenton C.The Death of Biomedical Journals? Brit Med J 1995; 310: 1387-90.

83.  LaPorte RE, Villasenor A, Gamboa C, Bootstrom E, Marler E, Sauer F, Akazawa S, Glosser C, Libman I. The Global Health Network. In: INET'95 Conference Proceedings, Volume 2. Kilnam Chon (ed). Internet Society, Reston, VA. 1995:1027-1029.

84.  LaPorte RE, Akazawa S, Boostrom E, Campos M, Gamboa C, Gooch T, LeeHK, Libman I, Marler E, Roko K, Sauer F, Tajima N, Wiebe W. Global Public Health and the Information Superhighway: Global Health Network University Proposed. Brit Med J 1994; 309: 736-37.

85.  Akazawa S, LaPorte R, Kaihara S. Global Health Information Network and Health Care System. In: Proceeding for the 2nd International Conference on Health Technology in he Field of Diabetes, Kyoto, Japan: 4-5 November 1994. WHO.

86.  LaPorte RE, Akazawa S, Hellmonds P, Boostrom E, Gamboa C, Gooch T,Hussain F, Libman I, Marler E, Roko K, Sauer F, Tajima N. Global Public Health and the Information Superhighway. Brit Med J 1994; 308: 1651-52.

87.  LaPorte RE. Standards for Information Systems in the Global Health Network{Letter}.  Lancet 1994; 344: 1640-41.

88.  LaPorte RE, Tajima N, Vergona R, Akazawa S. Telecommunications and Global Health. In: The First International Conference on Health Technology in the Field of Diabetes, Kyoto, April 1991 Proceedings. Akazawa Y, Chigan E, King H, Minjoot-Pereira G (eds). Diabetes and Other Noncommunicable Disease Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 1993; 48-55.

89.  LaPorte RE, Gower IF, Rewers M, Tuomilehto J, Tajima N, Akimoto Y, Aiso M,Grabauskas VJ, Williams JG. Telecommunication and International Health Research. Am J Epidemiol 1988; 128: 439-42.

90.  LaPorte RE, Tuomilehto J, Tajima N, Dorman J. Multinational Networking of Epidemiologists {Letter}. The Epidemiology Monitor 1986; 7: 2-3.

Back to the top  Front Page