page_title: EPortuguêse
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: EPortuguêse / Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue Trunk Library at WHO library
context_page_description: The ePORTUGUÊSe network is a platform developed by the World Health Organization to strengthen collaboration among Portuguese-speaking countries in the areas of health information and capacity building of Human Resources for Health, therefore enhancing health information systems in those countries.
  According to Ethnologue, Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world and there are more than 300 million speakers distributed through eight countries in four WHO Regional Offices.
  Portuguese is also the third most spoken language in the Western hemisphere and the most widely spoken in the southern hemisphere.
  In November 2012, ePORTUGUÊSe received a recognition award for its contribution to the South-South and Triangular collaboration at the UN High Level and Directors General Meeting during the Global Development EXPO 2012 held in Vienna, Austria.
  In May 2015, the ePORTUGUÊSe network ceased to exist as a WHO Programme.
context_section_description: Promoting and improving access to health information available in Portuguese, by developing a Virtual Health Library based on a model created by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO), a specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization,;
  Supporting and promoting local research in Portuguese;
  Delivering health Information in Portuguese through a compact library called – Blue Trunk Library to be distributed to rural and distant areas;
  Using information in science and technology (ICT) to build capacity of Human Resources for Health;
  Developing platforms in different social media, collaborative space, blogs and discussion groups;
  Encouraging training in the HINARI programme (Access to Research in Health Programme);
  Strengthening HIFA-pt (Health Information for all in Portuguese) based on HIFA2015 (Health information for all by 2015)– a discussion group with nearly 7000 members from 150 countries that aims to collect tacit knowledge and facilitate the exchange of experiences. HIFA-pt was developed by the ePORTUGUÊSe network in collaboration with the Global Healthcare Information Network.
caption: Blue trunk libraries
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