Background Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health
service delivery, but there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and …

In develo** countries, especially where a large proportion of the population still resides in
rural areas, healthcare access and delivery are often poor, and can potentially benefit from …

Smallholder farmers provide the majority of food production in sub-Saharan Africa. They will
be severely impacted by climate change, especially because they are dependent on rain-fed …

Abstract mHealth has been proposed to address inefficiencies in the current South African
healthcare system, including home-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) programs. Yet …

Background Cancer screening programs hold much potential for reducing the cervical
cancer disease burden in develo** countries. The aim of this study was to determine the …

New innovations in mobile technology provide an unparalleled opportunity for researchers
and organizations to scale communications with citizens in the develo** world, but bring …

As Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) companies have been increasing by
each day, the rivalry of making more and more profit among the companies all over the …

This paper discusses how to empower rural farmers to do business by means of inexpensive
mobile technologies. In particular, the aim is to take advantage of the inexpensive features of …

Clinical guidelines, such as the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), are
used worldwide to support community health workers in the assessment of severely ill …

The identification of epidemiological risk areas is one of the major problems in public health.
Information management strategies are needed to design prevention and control of disease …