Telemental Health in the Middle East: Overcoming the Barriers

Frontiers in Public Health

Hussam Jefee-Bahloul¹ 

关键词: telemental health;    mental health services;    Middle East;    developing countries;    telepsychiatry;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2014.00086

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Telemental health (or telepsychiatry) is a form of telemedicine that provides mental health services via telecommunication instead of face-to-face. There are two main modalities in TMH: synchronous and store-and-forward (S&F). Those modalities can be delivered through different means of telecommunication (e.g., telephone, Internet). Videoconferencing is a “synchronous” and “real-time” interaction between patients and therapists via video connection. S&F telemedicine is a transmission of recorded clinical material between referring physicians and specialists in an “asynchronous” manner [see Ref. (2) for a recent review].

【 授权许可】

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