Background This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health
Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have …

Background Access to mobile phone technology has rapidly expanded in develo**
countries. In Africa, mHealth is a relatively new concept and questions arise regarding …

Background New possibilities for mHealth have arisen by means of the latest advances in
mobile communications and technologies. With more than 1 billion smartphones and 100 …

Background: Advancements in technology have always had major impacts in medicine. The
smartphone is one of the most ubiquitous and dynamic trends in communication, in which …

Objectives Given the large‐scale adoption and deployment of mobile phones by health
services and frontline health workers (FHW), we aimed to review and synthesise the …

Background Low-cost mobile devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, and personal digital
assistants, which can access voice and data services, have revolutionised access to …

Increasing economic and educational exposure, and promotion of global health and
wellness can be achieved through the power of sharing knowledge, technology, and …

Background: With the continuous and enormous spread of mobile technologies, mHealth
has evolved as a new subfield of eHealth. While eHealth is broadly focused on information …

Whereas mobile phone-based surveillance has the potential to provide real-time validated
data for disease clustering and prompt respond and investigation, little evidence is available …

Background Mobile health (mHealth) approaches for non-communicable disease (NCD)
care seem particularly applicable to sub-Saharan Africa given the penetration of mobile …