Title: The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool : a report from a household survey in South Africa

Authors: Tomlinson, Mark

Place: [London]

Publisher: BioMed central

Year: 2009

Journal: BMC Medical informatics and decision making

Volume: vol. 9, no. 51

PAGE: --

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: mobile telecommunication services, data collection, rural health, south africa

Abstract: 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.

URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6947-9-51.pdf

Document type: Report