Mobile health-care information for all: A global challenge

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages e356-e357

  Royston, Geoff ^a   Hagar, Christine ^b   Long, Lesley Anne ^c   McMahon, Dennis ^d   Pakenham Walsh, Neil ^e   Wadhwani, Nand ^f  

^a Independent   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MPowering Frontline Health Workers   (United States)

^d Owner and CEO Green Business JV Marketing Sdn Bhd   (Malaysia)

^e Global Healthcare Information Network   (United Kingdom)

^f The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; DEHYDRATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE PHONE; NOTE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEXT MESSAGING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE;

CELL PHONES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERNET; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84937547726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00054-6     Document Type: Note

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