Title: 'Mobile' health needs and opportunities in developing countries

Authors: Kahn, James G. and Yang, Joshua S. and Kahn, James S.

Place: Millwood, VA

Publisher: Project Hope

Year: 2010

Journal: Health affairs

Volume: vol. 29, no. 2

PAGE: 252--258

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, public health, health services, chronic diseases, communicable diseases, evaluation, developing countries

Abstract: The authors examine the potential of mHealth applications in responding to the steady growth in the prevalence of chronic diseases in poor countries, along with a continued burden from communicable diseases. Positive examples as well as need of clinical and economic performance evaluation are found.

URL: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/2/252

Document type: E-article