Challenges and prospects for implementation of community health volunteers' digital health solutions in Kenya: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The value of digital health technologies in delivering vital health care interventions, especially in low resource settings is increasingly appreciated. We co-developed and tested a decision support mobile health (m-Health) application (app);with some of the forms used by Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in Kenya to collect data and connected to health facilities. This paper explores the experiences of CHVs, health workers and members of Sub-County Health Management Teams following implementation of the project.

Methods

Data were collected in December 2017 through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with CHVs and key informant interviews with health care workers and health managers in Kamukunji sub-County of Nairobi, Kenya. Data coding and analysis w

SUBMITTER: Bakibinga P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7507673 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature