Economic impact of telehealth on maternal and child health in regional, rural and remote Australia: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telehealth has the potential to mitigate maternal and child health access challenges, reduce health system dependency and healthcare expenditures, and facilitate the delivery of healthcare to women and children remotely.

Methods

Exhaustive searches of the literature were performed across multiple databases, including PubMed, Scopus, PDQ-Evidence for Informed Health Policymaking, CINAHL, EconLit, International Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Google Scholar, and the UniSQ RISE Research Repository. These searches targeted peer-reviewed, English-language articles published from inception to February 2024. The quality of the reports was assessed via CHEERS 2022.

Results

In this review, 20 studies comparing telehealth to usual care for maternal and child heal

SUBMITTER: Adella GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12837963 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature