ArticleAnthropology & medicine2017
mHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas: a note of caution from southern India.
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- Effectiveness of mobile health technology-enabled interventions to improve management and control of hypertension and diabetes in India- a systematic review.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Review
- Current Implementation of Digital Health in Chronic Disease Management: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
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- Mobile Mental Health in Women's Community-Based Organizations: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Exploring Telehealth Readiness in a Resource Limited Setting: Digital and Health Literacy among Older People in Rural India (DAHLIA).Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Can Mobile Health Improve Depression Treatment Access and Adherence Among Rural Indian Women? A Qualitative Study.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2020Article
- What contributes to inappropriate antibiotic dispensing among qualified and unqualified healthcare providers in Bangladesh? A qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Mobile Helpline and Reversible Contraception: Lessons From a Controlled Before-and-After Study in Rural India.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- Current Status and Future Directions of mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in India: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Review
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Abstract
This article examines challenges facing implementation of likely mHealth programmes in rural India. Based on fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh in 2014, and taking as exemplars two chronic medical 'conditions' - type 2 diabetes and depression - we look at ways in which people in one rural area currently access medical treatment; we also explore how adults there currently use mobile phones in daily life, to gauge the realistic likelihood of uptake for possible mHealth initiatives. We identify the very different pathways to care for these two medical conditions, and we highlight the importance to the rural population of healthcare outside the formal health system provided by those known as registered medical practitioners (RMP), who despite their title are neither registered nor trained. We also show how limited is the use currently made of very basic mobile phones by the majority of the older adult population in this rural context. Not only may this inhibit mHealth potential in the near future; just as importantly, our data suggest how difficult it may be to identify a clinical partner for patients or their carers for any mHealth application designed to assist the management of chronic ill-health in rural India. Finally, we examine how the promotion of patient 'self-management' may not be as readily translated to a country like India as proponents of mHealth might assume.
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