Title:
Using mobile phones to improve child nutrition surveillance in Malawi : UNICEF Malawi and UNICEF innovations
Authors:
Blaschke, Sean
Place:
New York, NY [etc.]
Publisher:
Mobile development solutions : with UNICEF Malawi [etc.]
Year:
2009
PAGE:
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Subject:
mHealth in Low-Resource Settings
Keywords:
mobile telecommunication services, data collection, child health, nutrition programmes, unicef, malawi
Abstract:
This study by Columbia University and UNICEF Malawi is about the use of mobile communication devices to facilitate the surveillance of child nutrition in Malawi. Health workers at three district growth monitoring clinics were trained to submit child nutrition data via mobile phone SMS.
URL:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.660.8526&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Document type:
E-article