Genuchten, Rick van | 2012
- Author(s): Genuchten, Rick van
- Publisher: Vrije universiteit (VU) Amsterdam [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health services, mobile telecommunication services, tanzania
This report aims to gain insight in the potential for mobile health services in Tanzania. It focuses on three main barriers to mobile health opportunities: cost-benefit barriers, policy barriers, and barriers related to technical architecture, data standards and platforms.
Gisore, Peter | 2012
- Author(s): Gisore, Peter
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: pregnancy, childbirth, child health, weights and measures, data collection, mobile telecommunication services, community participation, rural areas, kenya
In rural Kenya, pregnancies are often not recorded and birth weights are not accurately known. To obtain accurate birth weights for all infants, village elders were engaged to assist. All elders received weighing scales and mobile phones as tools to assist in subject enrollment and data recording.
Godse, C.S. | 2008
- Author(s): Godse, C.S.
- Publisher: JK science
- Pages: 155--156
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, scientific apparatus and instruments, malaria
The authors tested the use of a common mobile phone camera for telediagnosis of malaria. The camera was placed directly over the eyepiece of the microscope to generate a digitized image of the blood sample. The images can be sent via internet to malaria experts for remote diagnostic support.
Goggin, Gerard and Clark, Jacqueline | 2009
- Author(s): Goggin, Gerard and Clark, Jacqueline
- Publisher: Routledge
- Pages: 585--597
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, community development, aids
This paper considers how mobile phones have been taken up by citizens to create new forms of expression and power. The specific focus is the use of mobile phones in community development, with examples including HIV/AIDS healthcare.
Gormley, Rachel H. | [2010]
- Author(s): Gormley, Rachel H.
- Publisher: Click diagnostics
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, disease control, disease prevention, cancer, women, botswana
Preliminary results of a prospective case control study to evaluate the accuary and safety of mobile telemedicine for the diagnosis and/or triage of cervical pre-cancer/cancerous lesions in HIV infected patients in Botswana are summarized.