Establishing an independent mobile health program for chronic disease self-management support in bolivia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (m-health) work in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) mainly consists of small pilot programs with an unclear path to scaling and dissemination. We describe the deployment and testing of an m-health platform for non-communicable disease (NCD) self-management support in Bolivia.

Methods

Three hundred sixty-four primary care patients in La Paz with diabetes or hypertension completed surveys about their use of mobile phones, health and access to care. One hundred sixty-five of those patients then participated in a 12-week demonstration of automated telephone monitoring and self-management support. Weekly interactive voice response (IVR) calls were made from a platform established at a university in La Paz, under the direction of the regional healt

SUBMITTER: Piette JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4131690 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature