Using mobile job aids can help CHWs deliver integrated counseling on family planning and HIV/STI screening by following a step-by-step service delivery algorithm. Lessons learned during the pilot led to the development of additional features during scale-up to exploit the other major advantages that mHealth offers … [Read more...] about Family Planning Counseling in Your Pocket: A Mobile Job Aid for Community Health Workers in Tanzania
mHealth and Technology
Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low– and middle–income countries: Systematic review and meta–analysis
Researchers reviewed 16 online international databases to identify studies evaluating the impact of mHealth interventions on MNCH outcomes in LMIC, between January 1990 and May 2014. Results showed that most studies of mHealth for MNCH in LMIC are of poor methodological quality and few have evaluated impacts of patient outcomes. Improvements in intermediate outcomes have … [Read more...] about Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low– and middle–income countries: Systematic review and meta–analysis
The effectiveness of Technology-assisted Cascade Training and Supervision of community health workers in delivering the Thinking Healthy Program for perinatal depression in a post-conflict area of Pakistan: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Rates of perinatal depression in low and middle-income countries are reported to be very high. Perinatal depression not only has a profound impact on women’s health, disability and functioning, it is associated with poor child health outcomes such as pre-term birth, under-nutrition, and stunting, which ultimately have an adverse trans-generational impact. There is strong … [Read more...] about The effectiveness of Technology-assisted Cascade Training and Supervision of community health workers in delivering the Thinking Healthy Program for perinatal depression in a post-conflict area of Pakistan: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Health workers’ experiences, barriers, preferences and motivating factors in using mHealth forms in Ethiopia
Mobile health (mHealth) applications, such as innovative electronic forms on smartphones, could potentially improve the performance of health care workers and health systems in developing countries. However, contextual evidence on health workers' barriers and motivating factors that may influence large-scale implementation of such interfaces for health care delivery is … [Read more...] about Health workers’ experiences, barriers, preferences and motivating factors in using mHealth forms in Ethiopia
mHealth as a Tool for Integrated Systems Strengthening in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming
The growth in capacity and geographic reach of mobile technology has important implications for health and development. While mobile technology is commonly used to address health systems challenges, Pathfinder International is exploring the application of mobile technology to improve implementation for sexual and reproductive health and rights, necessarily … [Read more...] about mHealth as a Tool for Integrated Systems Strengthening in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming
