mHealth Resources
Key Papers
- (PDF) mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework
Global Health: Science and Practice | August 2013 - H_pe for mHealth: more “y” or “o” on the horizon?
International Journal of Medical Informatics | May 2013 - Health on the move: Can mobile phones save lives?
BBC Media Action | February 2013 - The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
PLOS Medicine | January 2013
- Interest of pregnant women in the use of SMS (short message service) text messages for the improvement of perinatal and postnatal care
Reproductive Health | August 2012
- Special Delivery: An Analysis of mHealth in Maternal and Newborn Health Programs and Their Outcomes Around the World
Maternal and Child health Journal | July 2012 - The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa
BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making | December 2009 - (PDF) Evaluating the accuracy of data collection on mobile phones
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | September 2008
Reports
- (PDF) Leveraging Mobile Technologies to Promote Maternal and Newborn Health by mHealth Alliance
- (PDF) mHealth and MNCH: State of the Evidence by mHealth Alliance
- (PDF) mHealth: New horizons for health through mobile technology by WHO, Global Observatory for e-Health, 2011
- (PDF) Preventing mother to child transmission: Report on mHealth strategies to strengthen collaboration and increase the impact of PMTCT initiatives by frog Design; UNICEF; Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; mHealth Alliance
- Country Feasibility Report: Tanzania 2015 by GSMA
Toolkits
- mHealth Basics: Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health by USAID’s Global Health eLearning Center
- mHealth Evidence Database by K4Health
- mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health by USAID, Dimagi and Core Group
- mHealth: Mobile Technology to Strengthen Family Planning Programs by K4Health
- Tools, resources and case studies developed by MAMA
- Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action by MAMA
- mHealth Debates and Series by Skoll World Forum
- (PDF) Mobile based technology for monitoring and evaluation
- Mobile data collection in M & E by Selleo