Collaboration patterns among SAARC countries in the area of medicine : status and issues

Kundra, Ramesh and Srivastava, Divya Collaboration patterns among SAARC countries in the area of medicine : status and issues., 2006 . In International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France), May 10 - 12, 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established when its Charter was formally adopted on December 8, 1985 by the Heads of State or Government of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SAARC thus provided a platform for the peoples of South Asia to work together in a spirit of friendship, trust and understanding. Since 12 years of SAARC establishment in 1985 an attempt has been made to study the present status of collaboration and cooperation among these countries in Health sector. The following issues are discussed in the study: The pattern of publication of SAARC countries in area of medicine and Collaboration among SAARC countries. The purpose of the study is to show that studies reported from these countries are focused more towards the issues being discussed in developed countries. The SAARC countries in spite of having common health problems and often affected by same kind of natural calamities and epidemics do not attempt for a common minimum program to overcome the same. SAARC countries continue to be guinea pigs for the MNC’s .First it was the tropical diseases and now it is in cases such as Cancer, HIV/AIDS, diseases relating to pollution, etc.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), collaboration patterns, medicine, bibliometrics
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods B. Information use and sociology of information
Depositing user:	Heather G Morrison
Date deposited:	05 Jun 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7652

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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from SAARC).

Pub med, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western pacific 2005: Country Health Profile.

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