Application of mHealth to improve service delivery and health outcomes: Opportunities and challenges

Vesel, Linda; Hipgrave, David; Dowden, Justine; Kariuki, Wanjiku

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“…However, despite the hopes that mHealth can improve access and quality of health care while simultaneously reducing cost, little is yet known whether it can actually achieve these goals in practice (Barlow et al, 2007;Free et al, 2013;Shahrokni et al, 2015;Vesel, Hipgrave, Dowden, & Kariuki, 2015). Reasons for that concern include a tendency of technology designers to focus on usability of interventions rather than actual health outcomes; a lack of standardized, replicable study designs; and an absence of frameworks for evaluation (Labrique, Vasudevan, Kochi, Fabricant, & Mehl, 2013;Vesel et al, 2015). Furthermore, Vesel et al (2015) stated that it is essential to address issues of technology acceptance to ensure successful implementation of mHealth programs.…”

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“…Reasons for that concern include a tendency of technology designers to focus on usability of interventions rather than actual health outcomes; a lack of standardized, replicable study designs; and an absence of frameworks for evaluation (Labrique, Vasudevan, Kochi, Fabricant, & Mehl, 2013;Vesel et al, 2015). Furthermore, Vesel et al (2015) stated that it is essential to address issues of technology acceptance to ensure successful implementation of mHealth programs.…”

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Barriers and facilitators of older people's mHealth usage: A qualitative review of older people's views

Spann¹,

Stewart²

2018

Human Technology

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The aim of this qualitative evidence synthesis is to identify and assess existing evidence on barriers to and facilitators of older people's usage of mHealth. Existing literature identified many factors that affect people's experiences and perceptions of mHealth, which are in turn influenced by their personal circumstances and biography. The following themes were identified using the thematic synthesis approach: (a) perception of usefulness, (b) user requirements, (c) self-efficacy, (d) sense of self and control, (e) privacy and confidentiality, and (f) cost. MHealth devices and services are complex interventions that have to be integrated into an older person's life in order to facilitate effective use. Developers, providers, and policymakers should make sure that older people are included in decisions about technology use and, further, should question whether the current promotion of technology as a panacea for societal and budgetary problems is rooted in a realistic assessment of their use in practice.

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Barriers and facilitators of older people's mHealth usage: A qualitative review of older people's views

Spann¹,

Stewart²

2018

Human Technology

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“…mHealth, ‘the use of mobile technologies for health related activities’, is rapidly expanding throughout the world (Vesel et al 2015:1684). Service provision and management of complex conditions, such as non-communicable diseases (Opoku, Stephani & Quentin 2017) and palliative care (Allsop, Namisango & Powell 2018), benefited from mHealth applications in Africa.…”

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“…Service provision and management of complex conditions, such as non-communicable diseases (Opoku, Stephani & Quentin 2017) and palliative care (Allsop, Namisango & Powell 2018), benefited from mHealth applications in Africa. Mobile phone applications or mHealth applications have the advantage of reaching large populations in different geographical areas across gender and social divides (Vesel et al 2015). It connects users to services that were previously unavailable to them or were only available through substantial effort in terms of travel, expenses and waiting times (Abaza & Marschollek 2017; Opoku et al 2017; Vesel et al 2015; Watkins et al 2018).…”

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Perspectives on a mobile application that maps assistive technology resources in Africa

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Background: Access to assistive technology (AT) is poor in African countries because of a lack of knowledge, resources, services and products. A mobile application, the AT-Info-Map, was developed to map AT availability in southern Africa.Objectives: This article aimed to describe users’ and suppliers’ perceptions of the AT-Info-Map app.Method: Qualitative data were collected in Zambia, Botswana, Malawi and Lesotho, through nine focus group discussions with 72 participants. Participants included AT users, AT suppliers and representatives of disability organisations. Data were thematically analysed.Results: Two broad themes, that is, usefulness of the AT-Info-Map application and technical issues and content, emerged from the data analysis. Subthemes under usefulness focused on the importance of using current technology, convenience of the app, the need for accuracy, responsiveness of supplier to user’s needs, influence on AT market and how the app creates an opportunity for networking. Challenges to download and navigate the app, the need for training in its use, exclusion of those not literate in English and those with visual impairments were subthemes under technical issues and content.Conclusion: The app was perceived as an important step to increase access to AT for persons with disabilities in less resourced settings. The challenges that emerged from the data analysis have led to the development of a web-based system that will complement or replace the app and improve AT information provision. However, the information provided by the app and website is still only a partial solution to improve AT access in Southern Africa.

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“…There are few studies related to MHealth in the field of safety, research conducted by Larissa Jennings et al showed that only 7 out of 173 articles met the inclusion criteria. In general, MHealth is currently used in aspects related to HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, health-based microenterprise, non-communicable diseases, support emergency medical services, online help-seeking, maternal and child healthcare, medical and health education, service delivery and health outcomes [9]- [15]. Therefore, MHealth function needs to be expanded because MHealth interventions delivered through Text Messaging (TM) has the potential to improve healthy life style behaviors in adolescents, such as increasing physical activity.…”

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The Utilization of MHealth for Assessing Child Safety Education Is A Necessity

Widowati¹,

Husodo²,

Istiono³

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Physical Education, Sport, and Health (ACPES 2019)

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In the last 10 years, disasters have caused huge casualties that affected the welfare and safety of people and countries. More than 700 thousand people have lost their lives, more than 1.4 million injured and around 23 million have lost homes due to disaster. The impact of disasters on children is far greater than on adults. For this reason, the development of effective instruments is important to increase public awareness and education, especially user-friendly instruments that can be used to assess children's safety education. Instruments will increase an understanding on disaster risk and encourage all stakeholders to be actively involved in reducing multi-hazard risk, especially starts from the school. The method used in this research was a systematic review. The articles were obtained by searching through electronic databases available at EBSCO, PubMed, Science Direct, SAGE Journal, ProQuest and Emerald Insight, which were published in English, between January 2009 and January 2019. Only two of 114 articles met the inclusion criteria; by the research reviewed, there was no very specific research that used m-health to assess child safety education especially at school. Therefore, in the future, it is necessary to develop further research related this issue.

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Application of mHealth to improve service delivery and health outcomes: Opportunities and challenges

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Barriers and facilitators of older people's mHealth usage: A qualitative review of older people's views

Barriers and facilitators of older people's mHealth usage: A qualitative review of older people's views

Perspectives on a mobile application that maps assistive technology resources in Africa

The Utilization of MHealth for Assessing Child Safety Education Is A Necessity

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