Scaling up a mobile telemedicine solution in Botswana: Keys to sustainability

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Ndlovu, Kagiso ^a   Littman Quinn, Ryan ^a,b   Park, Elizabeth ^a   Dikai, Zambo ^a   Kovarik, Carrie L ^a,b  

^a BOTSWANA UPENN PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Low resource setting; MHealth; Mobile telemedicine; National EHealth strategy; Public private partnerships; Store and forward telemedicine; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971482644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00275     Document Type: Article

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