mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Leveraging mobile technologies to promote maternal & newborn health : the current landscape & opportunities for advancement in low-resource settings

| [2012]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: mHealth alliance
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal and child health, mobile telecommunication services, health care delivery, maternal health services, asia, latin america, africa, bangladesh, india, philippines, brazil, mexico, peru, ghana, kenya, liberia, south africa, rwanda, tanzania, uganda
In maternal and newborn health, combining mobile technologies with existing health system resources may provide women and newborns with health care through interventions that stimulate demand for available services, promote improved access, and lead to better health care delivery.

In CRS India, cell phones lead to better health for expectant moms

| [2011]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Catholic relief services (CRS) India
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal and child health, maternal health services, mobile telecommunication services, health personnel, primary health care, religious institutions, india
See a mobile phone become a tool for saving mothers' and babies' lives in India. Through innovation and strategic partnership, Catholic Relief Services is equipping community health workers to provide better care to women during pregnancy.

Communications for change : how to use text messaging as an effective behavior change campaigning tool

| [2011]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: FrontlineSMS [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, health information, telecommunication
Behavior change campaigning is inherently interactive. Therefore, SMS -an interactive communication channel - is a campaigning tool for instance to improve HIV/AIDS awareness. This guide seeks to introduce some key points to think about when planning to use SMS for behavioral change campaigning.

FrontlineSMS and Georgetown university's Institute for reproductive health : case study

| [2011]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: FrontlineSMS
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, reproductive health, women's advancement, india
CycleTel service empowers women by providing them with accessible reproductive health information through SMS, facilitating the use of the Standard Days Method of family planning. FrontlineSMS was used to support two phases of manual testing of the concept before proceeding with product development.

Applying or integrating mobile-based episurveyor technology into Malawi malaria supervision

| [2010]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Center for pharmaceutical management. Management sciences for health (MSH)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, data collection, malaria, malawi
The Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) program in Malawi piloted the application of EpiSurveyor Mobile for their malaria quarterly supervision activity. The trial was designed to assess the practical feasibility and scalability of the data collection system.
 

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This website aims to offer an up-to-date source of information and a platform for sharing knowledge on the current use, potentional and limitation of mHealth in low-resource settings.