Environmental and Sanitation Improvements with mHealth

项目总结 世界上超过一半的人口是城市人口。虽然经济机会往往会促使移民到城市 环境，增加经济机会的好处，城市的环境和卫生基础设施并不是 足够的或公平的。虽然城市地区的卫生覆盖率可能更高，但在人口稠密的地区， 贫民窟社区在这些水和卫生设施的分配、质量和连续性方面存在差异 服务。与政府投资相结合，集体行动、利益攸关方参与、 包容性和可持续的做法对于有效的城市卫生解决方案仍然至关重要。解决主要问题 有效的城市卫生干预措施的障碍，例如建立城市卫生机构之间的沟通机制 弱势社区的居民和规模化的服务提供商有可能使 对健康和福祉产生巨大影响。移动医疗技术具有收集数据的巨大潜力 直接从需要可持续水和卫生解决方案的未得到充分服务的人口中受益，并加强 将弱势群体纳入这些解决方案的参与性建设。 这项建议的主要目的是开发和评估移动保健技术计划，以增强 在人口稠密和边缘化的城市社区进行城市卫生干预，以增加联系 并参与卫生干预，减少环境污染。穿过 形成性研究、试点可行性调查和验证研究，我们将确定 移动健康计划，以加强城市卫生干预。

PROJECT SUMMARY More than half of the world’s population is urban. While economic opportunities often drive migration to urban settings, the benefits of increased economic opportunity, environmental and health infrastructure in cities is not adequate or equitable. While urban areas may have greater sanitation coverage, those in densely populated, slum communities experience disparities in distribution, quality, and continuity of these water and sanitation services. In conjunction with government investment, the issues of collective action, stakeholder engagement, inclusive and sustainable practices remain critical to impactful urban sanitation solutions. Addressing the major barriers to effective urban sanitation interventions such as building mechanisms for communication between the residents of the vulnerable communities and the service providers at scale has the potential to make a tremendous impact on health and well-being. Mobile health technology has tremendous potential to gather data directly from the underserved populations in need of sustainable water and sanitation solutions and enhance the inclusion of vulnerable populations in the participatory construction of these solutions. The primary purpose of this proposal is to develop and evaluate a mobile health technology program to enhance urban sanitation interventions in densely populated and marginalized urban communities to increase connections and engagement with sanitation interventions, and result in reduced environmental contamination. Through formative research, a pilot feasibility investigation, and a validation study, we will determine the ability of the mHealth program to enhance urban sanitation interventions.