Huq 2014.
Country | Bangladesh | |
Resources | Lower middle‐income country | |
Data collection | Interviews and focus group discussions | |
Health worker category | Community skilled birth attendants (CSBAs) | |
Health issue | Maternal and child health | |
mHealth system | CSBAs used mobile phones, issued to them, to communicate with their clients. The clients and their families could call CSBAs, free of charge, for maternal and neonatal health and emergencies. CSBAs also used the phones to call medical experts at the Solution Link Group. Both the CSBAs and Solution Link Group members could call back the mothers or others if necessary in the course of managing a condition. All these calls were either free of charge or reimbursed. | |
WHO taxonomy |
2.1 Client identification and registration 2.1.2 Enrol client for health services/clinical care plan 2.5 Healthcare provider communication No subclassifcation identified |
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Notes | The mHealth study was conducted between September 2009 and March 2011. |