Using mobile phone text messaging for malaria surveillance in rural Kenya
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Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa
Across many malaria-endemic areas in rural Africa, health systems are weak, infrastructure is poor, and poverty is widespread. Traditionally, the communication gap between managers of health services, health workers at the periphery, and the patient population they serve has been a barrier to efficient service delivery [1]. This gap, however, has the potential to be bridged through the rapid ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Malaria Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-107