Impact of m-health application used by community health volunteers on improving utilisation of maternal, new-born and child health care services in a rural area of Uttar Pradesh, India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 895-907

  Prinja, Shankar ^a   Nimesh, Ruby ^a   Gupta, Aditi ^a   Bahuguna, Pankaj ^a   Gupta, Madhu ^a   Thakur, Jarnail Singh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

community health worker; impact assessment; m health; maternal and child health

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; IRON; TETANUS TOXOID;

CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MATERNAL HEALTH; NEONATE; PREGNANCY; RURAL AREA; TETANUS;

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN CARE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SUPPLEMENTATION; TETANUS; UTTAR PRADESH; VACCINATION; ADULT; COUNSELING; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION; VOLUNTEER;

INDIA; KAUSHAMBI; UTTAR PRADESH;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TELEMEDICINE; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 85020394099     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12895     Document Type: Article

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