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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
MHealth applications for telemedicine and public health intervention in Botswana
2011 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings, IST 2011, Article 6107376, Year 2011
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This paper describes the use of mobile health (mHealth) projects in Botswana in public health interventions. mHealth is broadly defined to include any aspect of health care facilitated by mobile phone technology. Botswana's mobile network infrastructure makes mHealth an ideal tool to address the country's shortage of physicians and to respond to the HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria burden of disease. Mobile phones are used for pediatric TB contact tracing to screen for TB disease and for collecting data on malaria outbreaks. mHealth tools also address the issue of health provider access (especially specialist consultations) given the country's relatively small population spread over a large land area. Data and camera enabled phones are used for radiology consultations, dermatology evaluations, and cervical cancer screening. The initial successes of mHealth projects in this country clearly demonstrate the potential for mobile phone technology in nationwide health care interventions. © 2011 IIMC LTD.
Authors & Co-Authors
Littman-Quinn, Ryan
United States, Philadelphia
Botswana-upenn Partnership
Chandra, Amit
Botswana, Gaborone
University of Botswana
Fadlelmola, Faisal M.
Botswana, Gaborone
University of Botswana
Ghose, Sankalpo
United States, Philadelphia
Botswana-upenn Partnership
Luberti, Anthony A.
United States, Philadelphia
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tatarsky, Allison
United States, Boston
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
Chihanga, Simon
Unknown Affiliation
Ramogola-Masire, D.
United States, Philadelphia
Botswana-upenn Partnership
Steenhoff, Andrew P.
United States, Philadelphia
Botswana-upenn Partnership
Kovarik, Carrie Lynn
United States, Philadelphia
Botswana-upenn Partnership
United States, Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Statistics
Citations: 26
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 5
Research Areas
Cancer
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial
Cross Sectional Study
Study Locations
Botswana