Despite the availability of free health services, children residing in Sri Lanka’s less developed plantation sector are more likely to be undernourished than children in urban and rural sectors. Hence, we need new approaches to improve their nutritional status. One promising approach involves mobile health initiatives, which is used effectively in other countries in primary health care settings. We studied the nature of mobile phone use in this community, and their perceptions on using m-health counseling for infant and young child feeding. Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews were the study methods. We found that mobile phone usage is common in this community hence; m-health platform could be a promising initiative to strengthen...
Technological advancements have led to increased connectivity across the globe. In eHealth, informat...
As mobile phone technology has improved, health services provided via mobile phones (mHealth), have ...
The Institute of Development Studies, in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whet...
Despite the availability of free health services, children residing in Sri Lanka’s less developed pl...
Undernutrition is a major public health problem for under 5 years of age children in India. Approxim...
Abstract Background Nutrition has been integrated within the health services in Bangladesh as it is ...
BackgroundMalnutrition is one of the most important reasons for child mortality in developing countr...
Child undernutrition remains one of the most devastating realities in many parts of the world. The u...
Child malnutrition (includes both under- and overweight) remains a challenge. Routine growth monitor...
Child undernutrition remains devastatingly high in many low- and middle-income countries (Black et a...
This article presents key lessons learned from a rigorous mixed-method evaluation of mNutrition, a g...
The mNutrition initiative is a five-year global programme supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...
A majority of the world’s population now live in areas with a mobile telephone network. This ...
This report presents the thematic analysis of the findings from the initial qualitative exploratory ...
In this paper we claim that therein lies great potential in employing the use of persuasive mobile t...
Technological advancements have led to increased connectivity across the globe. In eHealth, informat...
As mobile phone technology has improved, health services provided via mobile phones (mHealth), have ...
The Institute of Development Studies, in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whet...
Despite the availability of free health services, children residing in Sri Lanka’s less developed pl...
Undernutrition is a major public health problem for under 5 years of age children in India. Approxim...
Abstract Background Nutrition has been integrated within the health services in Bangladesh as it is ...
BackgroundMalnutrition is one of the most important reasons for child mortality in developing countr...
Child undernutrition remains one of the most devastating realities in many parts of the world. The u...
Child malnutrition (includes both under- and overweight) remains a challenge. Routine growth monitor...
Child undernutrition remains devastatingly high in many low- and middle-income countries (Black et a...
This article presents key lessons learned from a rigorous mixed-method evaluation of mNutrition, a g...
The mNutrition initiative is a five-year global programme supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...
A majority of the world’s population now live in areas with a mobile telephone network. This ...
This report presents the thematic analysis of the findings from the initial qualitative exploratory ...
In this paper we claim that therein lies great potential in employing the use of persuasive mobile t...
Technological advancements have led to increased connectivity across the globe. In eHealth, informat...
As mobile phone technology has improved, health services provided via mobile phones (mHealth), have ...
The Institute of Development Studies, in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whet...