mHealth Innovation in Asia Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions /

This book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges....

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Baulch, Emma (Editor), Watkins, Jerry (Editor), Tariq, Amina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Series:Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications,
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1251-2
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the Volume.- Section 1: Challenges.- Chapter 1: Barriers to informal mHealth adoption by community health workers in regional Indonesia
  •  Chapter 2:  Take care of your health, this is what the Qur’an said - The use of mobile phone among poor rural women with Type-2 Diabetes in Central Java, Indonesia
  • Chapter 3: One size does not fit all - The importance of contextually sensitive mHealth strategies for frontline female health workers
  • Chapter 4: Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps: Qualitative Insights
  • Section 2: Strategies
  • Chapter 5: The Path to Scale: Navigating design, policy and infrastructure
  • Chapter 6: mHealth, health and mobility - A culture-centered interrogation.- Afterword.