Analyzing the mobile “Digital divide”: Changing determinants of household phone ownership over time in Rural Bangladesh

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tran, Michael Clifton ^a   Labrique, Alain Bernard ^a   Mehra, Sucheta ^a   Ali, Hasmot ^b   Shaikh, Saijuddin ^b   Mitra, Maithilee ^a   Christian, Parul ^a   West, Keith ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JiVitA Maternal and Child Health Project   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Demography; Digital; Family characteristics; Finances; Mobile; Mobile Health (mHealth); Ownership; Phones; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965141344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3663     Document Type: Article

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