Health Worker mHealth Utilization

Management challenges in mHealth: failures of a mobile community health worker surveillance programme in rural Nepal

To cite: Meyers DJ, Filkins M, Harsha Bangura A, et al. BMJ Innov Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjinnov2015-000102 ABSTRACT Community health workers form the backbone of healthcare systems globally. The rapid expansion of mobile communications systems represents an opportunity to improve the productivity of community health workers in rural areas. Here, we...

Community Health Worker Programmes

Role of behavioral outreach worker in increasing mental health service utilization for children.

© 2009 Japan Pediatric Society One of the most important issues in the fi eld of child mental health is the low utilization of mental health services among those who have mental illness. Reasons for lower utilization of mental health services among children may be due to the lack of insurance, prohibitive costs, stigma of visiting mental health services 1 or lengthy waiting time at mental healt...

Mobile Health (mHealth): A Conceptual View

The value of mHealth for sustainable healthcare is discussed. It is projected that mHealth can become a disruptive technology that is set out to radically transform the current state of medical disciplines. In particular, the mHealth solutions can provide better understanding of the organism stability margins and of the emergence of diseases as well as ensure more patient safety under drug and ...

The relevance of health literacy to mHealth

This chapter examines the importance of health literacy to the design and use of mobile digital health information technology (mHealth) applications. Over the past two decades mHealth has evolved to become a major health communication channel for delivering health care, promoting health, and tracking health behaviors. Yet, there are serious communication challenges that must be addressed concer...