An mHealth Framework to Improve Birth Outcomes in Benue State, Nigeria: A Study Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The unprecedented coverage of mobile technology across the globe has led to an increase in the use of mobile health apps and related strategies to make health information available at the point of care. These strategies have the potential to improve birth outcomes, but are limited by the availability of Internet services, especially in resource-limited settings such as Nigeria.

Objective

Our primary objective is to determine the feasibility of developing an integrated mobile health platform that is able to collect data from community-based programs, embed collected data into a smart card, and read the smart card using a mobile phone-based app without the need for Internet access. Our secondary objectives are to determine (1) the acceptability of the smart card amo

SUBMITTER: Ezeanolue EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5466701 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature