Mobile Phone Tools for Field-Based Health care Workers in Low-Income Countries
Mobile Phone Tools for Field-Based Health care Workers in Low-Income Countries
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10.1002/msj.20256
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2011-05-01
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Lesh, Neal
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作者：
DeRenzi, Brian;Borriello, Gaetano;Lesh, Neal
在低收入地区，基于手机的工具可以提高现场卫生工作者的工作范围和效率。它们还可以应对在监测和监督大量分布在各地的卫生工作者方面的挑战。已经开发了一些工具并在现场进行了部署，但很少进行比较以帮助了解其有效性。这主要是因为不存在一个框架来分析这些工具帮助加强现有卫生系统的不同方式。在本文中，我们强调了卫生系统目前执行的6个关键功能，在这些方面移动工具可以提供最大的益处。利用这6个卫生系统功能，我们比较了现有的社区卫生工作者应用程序（社区卫生工作者是使用这些技术的一类重要的现场卫生工作者），并讨论了部署移动工具的常见挑战和经验教训。《西奈山医学杂志》2011年第78卷第406 - 418页。（C）2011西奈山医学院
In low-income regions, mobile phone based tools can improve the scope and efficiency of field health workers. They can also address challenges in monitoring and supervising a large number of geographically distributed health workers. Several tools have been built and deployed in the field, but little comparison has been done to help understand their effectiveness. This is largely because no framework exists in which to analyze the different. ways in which the tools help strengthen existing health systems. In this article we highlight 6 key functions that health systems currently perform where mobile tools can provide the most benefit. Using these 6 health system functions, we compare existing applications for community health workers, an important class of field health workers who use these technologies, and discuss common challenges and lessons learned about deploying mobile tools. Mt Sinai J Med 78:406-418, 2011. (C) 2011 Mount Sinai School of Medicine