The effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low-and middle-income countries: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Main Authors: Ulugbek B. Nurmatov (Author), Siew H. Lee (Author), Bright I. Nwaru (Author), Mome Mukherjee (Author), Liz Grant (Author), Claudia Pagliari (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 10.7189/jogh.04.010407; 2047-2978; 2047-2986
• Keywords: Maternal; newborn and child; mortality; morbidity; global health inequity; Medicine; R; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Journal of Global Health, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2014)

Rates of maternal, newborn and child (MNCH) mortality and morbidity are vastly greater in low- than in high-income countries and represent a major source of global health inequity. A host of systemic, economic, geopolitical and sociocultural factors have been implicated. Mobile information and communication technologies hold potential to ameliorate several of these challenges by supporting coordinated and evidence-based care, facilitating community based health services and enabling citizens to access health information and support. mHealth has attracted considerable attention as a means of supporting maternal, newborn and child health in developing countries and research to assess the impacts of mHealth interventions is increasing. While a number of expert reviews have attempted to summarise this literature, there remains a need for a fully systematic review employing gold standard methods of evidence capture, critical appraisal and meta-analysis, in order to comprehensively map, quality assess and synthesise this body of knowledge.