Improving community health worker performance through automated SMS

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-34

  DeRenzi, Brian ^a   Findlater, Leah ^b   Payne, Jonathan ^c   Birnbaum, Benjamin ^a   Mangilima, Joachim ^b   Parikh, Tapan ^d   Borriello, Gaetano ^a   Lesh, Neal ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c D Tree International   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e DIMAGI INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health workers; ICT4CHW; Mobile tools; Public health; Reminder systems

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH; ICT4CHW; MHEALTH; NEONATAL MORTALITY RATES; PILOT STUDIES; REAL-TIME SUPERVISION; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TANZANIA;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

EID: 84859135590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160673.2160677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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