MSpray: A mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa

Environment International

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 219-226

  Eskenazi, Brenda ^a   Quirós Alcalá, Lesliam ^a   Lipsitt, Jonah M ^a   Wu, Lemuel D ^a   Kruger, Philip ^b   Ntimbane, Tzundzukani ^b   Nawn, John Burns ^c   Bornman, M S Riana ^d   Seto, Edmund ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Limpopo Department of Health   (South Africa)

^c National Department of Health   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell phones; IRS (indoor residual spraying); Malaria control; MHealth; Mobile technology; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISEASES; INSECTICIDES; MOBILE PHONES; PESTICIDES; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

CELL PHONE; COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; MHEALTH; MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; POSITIONING SYSTEM; REPORTING SYSTEMS;

MALARIA CONTROL;

CHLORPHENOTANE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

DISEASE CONTROL; GPS; INSECTICIDE; MALARIA; SPREADSHEET;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOBILE PHONE; MSPRAY TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTH AFRICA; VECTOR CONTROL;

LIMPOPO; SOUTH AFRICA;

CELL PHONES; IRS (INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING); MALARIA CONTROL; MHEALTH; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PESTICIDES;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR PHONE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84899146357     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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