Introduction of mobile phones for use by volunteer community health workers in support of integrated community case management in Bushenyi District, Uganda: Development and implementation process

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages

  Tumusiime, David Katuruba ^a   Agaba, Gad ^a   Kyomuhangi, Teddy ^a   Finch, Jan ^b   Kabakyenga, Jerome ^a   Macleod, Stuart ^b,c  

^a MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

child health; community health worker; integrated community case management; mobile phone; pediatric therapeutics; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UGANDA; VOLUNTEER;

ALGORITHMS; CASE MANAGEMENT; CELL PHONES; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL POPULATION; UGANDA; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84900858115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-S1-S2     Document Type: Article

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