mHealth Innovation in Asia: Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions

• Auteur principal: Jerry Watkins (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Amina Tariq (auth), Emma Baulch (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Springer Nature 2018
• Collection: Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications
• Sujets: Media and Communications; mHealth Initiatives and Policy; Development Studies on Public Health; Practical mHealth Interventions in Asia; Community Health Workers; Grassroots mHealth Projects in Asia; Mobile Health; mHealth Innovation in Asia; Structures and Infrastructures of mHealth in Asia; Health and Wellbeing; Mobile Phones in Health
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

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. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and demonstrates how a research focus on diverse Asian contexts influences the success and/or failure of current mHealth initiatives. It also highlights the important roles social scientists can play in advancing theoretical approaches, as well as planning, implementing and evaluating mHealth initiatives. The book is a valuable resource for project planners, policy developers in NGOs and government institutions, as well as academics, researchers and students in the fields of public health, communications and development studies.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (131 p.)

ISBN

/doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1251-2
9789402412505
9789402412512

Accès

Open Access