Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges.

Community health workers Ethiopia Ghana Informal mhealth Malawi Mobile health

Journal

World development
ISSN: 0305-750X
Titre abrégé: World Dev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9878856

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Apr 2021
Historique:
entrez: 5 4 2021
pubmed: 6 4 2021
medline: 6 4 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with 'mobile health' (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while 'formal' (top-down) mhealth programmes continue to face challenges of scalability and sustainability, we know relatively little about how health-workers are using their own mobile phones

Identifiants

pubmed: 33814676
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105257
pii: S0305-750X(20)30384-3
pmc: PMC7903241
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

105257

Subventions

Organisme : Wellcome Trust
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/R003963/1
Pays : United Kingdom

Informations de copyright

© 2021 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Auteurs

Kate Hampshire (K)

Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.

Tawonga Mwase-Vuma (T)

University of Malawi, Malawi.

Kassahun Alemu (K)

University of Gondar, Ethiopia.

Albert Abane (A)

University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Alister Munthali (A)

University of Malawi, Malawi.

Tadesse Awoke (T)

University of Gondar, Ethiopia.

Simon Mariwah (S)

University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Elita Chamdimba (E)

University of Malawi, Malawi.

Samuel Asiedu Owusu (SA)

University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Elsbeth Robson (E)

University of Hull, UK.

Michele Castelli (M)

University of Newcastle, UK.

Ziv Shkedy (Z)

University of Hasselt, Belgium.

Nicholas Shawa (N)

Research Triangle Institute, United States.

Jane Abel (J)

Durham University, UK.

Adetayo Kasim (A)

Durham University, UK.

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