Assessing the acceptability of technological health innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review and a best fit framework synthesis.

ABSTRACT: Acceptability is a key concept used to analyze the introduction of a health innovation in a specific setting. However, there seems to be a lack of clarity in this notion, both conceptually and practically. In low and middle-income countries, programs to support the diffusion of new technological tools are multiplying. They face challenges and difficulties that need to be understood with an in-depth analysis of the acceptability of these innovations. We performed a scoping review to explore the theories, methods and conceptual frameworks that have been used to measure and understand the acceptability of technological health innovations in sub-Saharan Africa. The review confirmed the lack of common definitions, conceptualizations and practical tools addressing the acceptability of health inn

SUBMITTER: Louart S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10469465 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature