Mobile Phones: Opening New Channels for Health Communication

Obregon/The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 309-329

  De Tolly, Katherine ^a   Benjamin, Peter ^a  

^a Cell Life ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

HIV counseling via instant messaging (IM) chat; ISIS Inc, SMS based service, sexual health and relationships; Mhealth as used in health communication, and social change; Mhealth, mobile phones for provision of health services and information; Mobile phones, new channels for health communication; Mobile technology in health communication; Mobiles in reaching people in health communications; Prenatal SMS support, Thailand; SEXINFO: sexual health SMSs

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EID: 84886966056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118241868.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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