Health Worker mHealth Utilization: A Systematic Review

CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 206-214

  White, Alice ^a   Thomas, Deborah S K ^b   Ezeanochie, Nnamdi ^a   Bull, Sheana ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health worker; Developing countries; mHealth; Mobile phone

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SMARTPHONE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TABLET; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH AUXILIARY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; SMARTPHONE; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84960145548     PISSN: 15382931     EISSN: 15389774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000231     Document Type: Review

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