A post-development perspective on mHealth - An implementation initiative in Malawi

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4217-4225

  Purkayastha, Saptarshi ^a   Manda, Tiwonge Davis ^b   Sanner, Terje Aksel ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; CONTEXT OF USE; EMPIRICAL DATA; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; HEALTH OUTCOMES; POST-DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SCALABLE SOLUTION;

INVESTMENTS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

HEALTH;

EID: 84875548839     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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