One million dog vaccinations recorded on mHealth innovation used to direct teams in numerous rabies control campaigns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Canine transmitted rabies kills an estimated 59,000 people annually, despite proven methods for elimination through mass dog vaccination. Challenges in directing and monitoring numerous remote vaccination teams across large geographic areas remain a significant barrier to the up-scaling of focal vaccination programmes to sub-national and national level. Smartphone technology (mHealth) is increasingly being used to enhance the coordination and efficiency of public health initiatives in developing countries, however examples of successful scaling beyond pilot implementation are rare. This study describes a smartphone app and website platform, "Mission Rabies App", used to co-ordinate rabies control activities at project sites in four continents to vaccinate over one millio

SUBMITTER: Gibson AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062050 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature