A review of mobile health interventions for public private mix in tuberculosis care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies as emerging opportunities to closing the gaps in Tuberculosis (TB) care through enhancing Public Private Mix (PPM). However, little is known about mHealth interventions that have been used for enhancing PPM in TB care, those that worked and those that did not.

Objective

This review summarizes the published evidence on the utilization and effectiveness of mHealth interventions for public private mix in TB care from literature.

Methods

Google scholar, PUBMED, IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect databases were searched for peer reviewed literature from 1st January 2003 to 31st December 2020 for studies about the mHealth interventions for public private mix in TB care. This

SUBMITTER: Tumuhimbise W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350595 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature