Community Health Worker Use of Smart Devices for Health Promotion: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community health workers (CHWs) have become essential to the promotion of healthy behaviors, yet their work is complicated by challenges both within and beyond their control. These challenges include resistance to the change of existing behaviors, disbelief of health messages, limited community health literacy, insufficient CHW communication skills and knowledge, lack of community interest and respect for CHWs, and CHWs' lack of adequate supplies. The rising penetration of "smart" technology (eg, smartphones and tablets) in low- and middle-income countries facilitates the use of portable electronic devices in the field.

Objective

This scoping review examines to what extent mobile health in the form of smart devices may enhance the delivery of public health message

SUBMITTER: Greuel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996418 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature