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mHealth in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Programs around the World

mHealth in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Programs around the World
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Author(s): Briana Britton (Healthcare Innovation Technology Lab, USA), Laura Pugliese (Healthcare Innovation Technology Lab, USA)and Stan Kachnowski (Healthcare Innovation Technology Lab, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 9
Source title: Consumer-Driven Technologies in Healthcare: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6198-9.ch004

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Abstract

The incorporation of mobile devices into the delivery of healthcare, known as mHealth, is changing the way care is delivered in the 21st century. The impact of mHealth is particularly salient in low and middle income countries (LMICs), where mHealth poses the opportunity to increase access and quality of healthcare in systems where supportive infrastructure is otherwise lacking. This approach is well-suited to target issues of maternal and child health, permitting an increase in health education, communication, monitoring, and care to what are often vulnerable and hard-to-access populations. Employing mHealth tactics that target such populations can improve the overall access and quality of maternal and child health in the developing world - a priority for the United Nations as reflected in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While the field of mHealth is new and still developing, many programs and thought-leaders have already successfully applied mHealth strategies in interventions to improve maternal and child health through health education, preventive care, emergency response, biometric data collection, and training healthcare workers.

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