Sustainable cost models for mHealth at scale: Modeling program data from m4RH Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Mangone, Emily R ^a,b   Agarwal, Smisha ^a,b   L'Engle, Kelly ^a,c   Lasway, Christine ^a,d   Zan, Trinity ^a   Van Beijma, Hajo ^e   Orkis, Jennifer ^f   Karam, Robert ^f  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e Text to Change   (Netherlands)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MODEL; PROFIT; PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; TANZANIA; UNCERTAINTY; ADULT; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING; UTILIZATION;

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TANZANIA; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84958214720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148011     Document Type: Article

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