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Potential Roles of Mhealth for Community Health Workers: Formative Research With End Users in Uganda and Mozambique.

Thondoo, M; Strachan, DL; Nakirunda, M; Ndima, S; Muiambo, A; Källander, K; Hill, Z; (2015) Potential Roles of Mhealth for Community Health Workers: Formative Research With End Users in Uganda and Mozambique. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth , 3 (3) , Article e76. 10.2196/mhealth.4208. Green open access

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Abstract

Community health workers are reemerging as an essential component of health systems in low-income countries. However, there are concerns that unless they are adequately supported, their motivation and performance will be suboptimal. mHealth presents an opportunity to improve support for community health workers; however, most interventions to date have been designed through a top-down approach, rarely involve the end user, and have not focused on motivation.

Type: Article
Title: Potential Roles of Mhealth for Community Health Workers: Formative Research With End Users in Uganda and Mozambique.
Location: Canada
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4208
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.4208
Language: English
Additional information: ©Meelan Thondoo, Daniel Ll Strachan, Maureen Nakirunda, Sozinho Ndima, Abel Muiambo, Karin Källander, Zelee Hill, The InSCALE Study Group. Originally published in JMIR Mhealth and Uhealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 23.07.2015. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR mhealth and uhealth, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mhealth.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
Keywords: community health workers, mHealth, mobile phones, motivation, performance
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1470656
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