Mobile Technology for Community Health in Ghana: Is Maternal Messaging and Provider Use of Technology Cost-Effective in Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes at Scale?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile technologies are emerging as tools to enhance health service delivery systems and empower clients to improve maternal, newborn, and child health. Limited evidence exists on the value for money of mobile health (mHealth) programs in low- and middle-income countries.

Objective

This study aims to forecast the incremental cost-effectiveness of the Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) initiative at scale across 170 districts in Ghana.

Methods

MOTECH's "Client Data Application" allows frontline health workers to digitize service delivery information and track the care of patients. MOTECH's other main component, the "Mobile Midwife," sends automated educational voice messages to mobile phones of pregnant and postpartum women. We measured program

SUBMITTER: Willcox M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391645 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature