BACKGROUND Common interventions for smoking cessation are based on medical advice and pharmacological aid. Information and communication technologies may be helpful as interventions by themselves or as complementary tools to quit smoking. The objective of the study was to determine the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the smoking population attended in primary care, a...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are electronic tools used to convey, manipulate and store information. The exponential growth of Internet access and ICTs greatly influenced social, political, and economic processes in the United States, and worldwide. Regardless of the level of practice, ICTs will continue influencing the careers of social workers and the clients they serve. I...

Since the year 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have anchored efforts to combat global poverty. As we near 2015, this article assesses ICTs’ role in reaching the goals, with an emphasis on urban poverty. Over the lifespan of the MDGs, debate about ICTs and development has grown. At one pole of this debate are those who see ICTs as enabling rapid growth and citizen empowerment; at t...

In the past decades, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally changed higher education and research, with the emergence of the World Wide Web—the greatest human-information construct in history—and the introduction of ICTs in teaching and learning, which spurred new interactive dynamiclearning methodologies and enabled cross-cultural and flexible collaborative inter...

www.thelancet.com Vol 374 July 25, 2009 275 initial reaction was mixed, but all agreed with the main message: clinical experts who write guidelines are often infl uenced by (usually) declared fi nancial confl icts and by equally important undeclared intellectual confl icts of interest. These confl icts of interest should be managed by placing the fi nal responsibility for recommendations in the...

Rapid technological change typically occurs in an uneven fashion. Certainly, there is no doubt about the unprecedented speed of progress in the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) 3⁄4 but patterns of diffusion are less clear and change fast. Given the pervasive impact of ICTs on society, there is grave concern about whether the rapid and uneven spread of ICTs will f...