mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Smart technology for global access to healthcare

Ozcan, Aydogan | cop. 2010
  • Author(s): Ozcan, Aydogan
  • Publisher: SPIE
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, scientific apparatus and instruments, communicable diseases, developing countries
The article explains the application of lensfree on-chip holography in the diagnostic of infectious diseases. The researchers aim to make such a system fully compatible with existing mobile phone designs and to make it applicable also in resource-limited settings.

Mobile for health (mHealth) in developing countries : application of 4 Ps of social marketing

Patil, Dhanraj A. | 2011
  • Author(s): Patil, Dhanraj A.
  • Publisher: Aston university. Department of computer science]
  • Pages: 317--326
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, health services, public health, developing countries, marketing
The essay analyses the role of mobile technology for public health by using 4 Ps of marketing mix-products and services, price, place, and promotion from social marketing perspective and also show how it helps for democratizing public health programs in the developing world.

Health and the mobile phone

Patrick, Kevin | 2008
  • Author(s): Patrick, Kevin
  • Publisher: Oxford university press
  • Pages: 177--181
  • Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, health services, medical applications, health hazards, health policy
This paper addresses how mHealth applications are changing healthcare and summarizes current and projected technological capabilities, such as SMS and Bluetooth. The health risks of mobile phone use are addressed, as are unresolved technical and policy issues.

The (m)health connection : an examination of the promise of mobile phones for HIV/AIDS intervention in sub-Saharan Africa

Phippard, Trisha Marie | cop. 2012
  • Author(s): Phippard, Trisha Marie
  • Publisher: Author]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: aids, disease prevention, mobile telecommunication services, health care delivery, health education, south africa, africa south of sahara
Focusing on a case study from South Africa (the mHealth organization Cell-Life), this thesis offers an examination of the development of innovative, locally appropriate, sustainable and scalable uses of mobile phones as instruments to support and advance HIV/AIDS work in sub-Saharan Africa.

Impacts of e-health on the outcomes of care in low- and middle-income countries : where do we go from here?

Piette, John D. | 2012
  • Author(s): Piette, John D.
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: 365--372
  • Keywords: health programmes, information technology, mobile telecommunication services, health economics, health care delivery
This literature review identifies data on the effects of e-health programmes on health outcomes and costs. For instance, automated telephone monitoring and self-care support calls have been shown to improve some outcomes of chronic disease management in low- and middle-income countries.
 

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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.