ArticleWorld development2021
Informal mhealth at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges.
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- Pooled it
- Healthcare workers' informal uses of mobile phones and other mobile devices to support their work: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- "I Hope It Does Not Stop With Me, and That It Continues With Other Patients" - A 360 Degree Qualitative Assessment of mHealth Follow-up in Cameroon.The Journal of surgical research · 2026Article
- Programme for the Effective Promotion of Maternal Psychosocial Wellbeing (PREPWELL) in Ghana: Development and field-testing of a mHealth Intervention in a rural setting.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Healthcare workers' and managers' uses of mobile phone messaging applications (apps) in their daily work in South Africa: a survey.Oxford open digital health · 2026Article
- How are instant messaging applications used informally for paediatric health consultations in Pakistan? A qualitative study with caregivers and healthcare providers in Punjab.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Scoping review of artificial intelligence via mobile technology and social media for health in Africa.Nature communications · 2025Article
- African digital health strategic plans analysis: key weaknesses in contextualization, intervention focus, and technological foresight.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Logics of acquiring medicines from informal retailers in four African countries.Global health action · 2025Article
- Bridging the gap between community health workers' digital health acceptance and actual usage in Uganda: Exploring key external factors based on technology acceptance model.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- From Peer Support to Program Supervision: Qualitative Insights on WhatsApp as Informal Digital Infrastructure for Community Health Workers and Public Health Officers in an Indian High-Priority Aspirational District.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the acceptability of ESIDA app, a smartphone-based clinical decision support application to improve infectious disease outbreak detection in Tanzania: clinician perspectives.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Intention to use mobile health in antenatal care service: Among primary health care unit workers, Bench-Sheko zone, southwest Ethiopia.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Strengthening vaccine uptake: a qualitative assessment of community health worker educational resource needs and community perspectives on vaccination in Western Kenya.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Examining the challenges in sustaining user engagement with a mobile app to enhance multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) care in Vietnam and its implications for implementing person-centred mHealth interventions.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Towards 'Formalising' WhatsApp Teledermatology Practice in KZ-N District Hospitals: Key Informant Interviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Assessing the Usage and Usability of a Mental Health Advice Telephone Service in Uganda: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- The Effects of Mobile Primary Health Teams: Evidence from theWorld development · 2024Article
- Self-management interventions for gestational diabetes in Africa: a scoping review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Ethical implications of the widespread use of informal mHealth methods in Ghana.Journal of medical ethics · 2024Article
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Abstract
The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with 'mobile health' (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while 'formal' (top-down) mhealth programmes continue to face challenges of scalability and sustainability, we know relatively little about how health-workers are using their own mobile phones
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