Tolentino, Herman D. | 2004
- Author(s): Tolentino, Herman D.
- Publisher: International development research centre (IDRC)]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: information technology, mobile telecommunication services, child health, data collection, health information, health policy, philippines
Initially aiming to set up a community-based child injury surveillance system using SMS for data collection, this approach was dismissed after preliminary investigations due to the costs of sending SMS and existing health data policies. Instead a computer-based information system was created.
Tolly, Katherine de and Alexander, Helen | 2009
- Author(s): Tolly, Katherine de and Alexander, Helen
- Publisher: World wide web consortium (W3C)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, health education, aids, behaviour modification, information dissemination, nonprofit corporations, south africa
A report on 3 pilots of Cell-Life’s Cellphones4HIV project in South Africa using mobile phones, incl. SMS, for behaviour change communication and adherence improvement. It discusses challenges in measuring impact in behaviour change communications and outlines Cell-Life’s upcoming initiatives.
Tolly, Katherine de and Technau, Karl-Gunter and Benjamin, Peter | [2011]
- Author(s): Tolly, Katherine de and Technau, Karl-Gunter and Benjamin, Peter
- Publisher: Cell-life
- Pages: --
- Keywords: aids, child health, communicable diseases, health education, mobile telecommunication services, south africa
Despite a comprehensive PMTCT programme in South Africa, drop-out from follow-up is high. This randomized controlled trial aims to assess the use of SMS to improve appointment compliance, the rate of HIV-testing of babies and the adherence to medication.
Tomlinson, Mark | 2009
- Author(s): Tomlinson, Mark
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, data collection, rural health, south africa
A report investigating the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained and successfully supervised to collect data using mobile phones in a large baseline survey.
Tran, Kathleen | cop. 2010
- Author(s): Tran, Kathleen
- Publisher: American academy of dermatology (ADD)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, dermatology, data transmission, egypt
Due to inconsistent internet access, the study aimed to demonstrate that mobile phones may be used on the African continent to submit both patient history and clinical photographs wirelessly to remote expert dermatologists. It was assessed whether these data are diagnostically reliable.