Publication year: 2018
ISBN: 978-94-024-1251-2
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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.
Subject: Open Access, mHealth Innovation in Asia, mHealth Initiatives and Policy, Grassroots mHealth Projects in Asia, Practical mHealth Interventions in Asia, Structures and Infrastructures of mHealth in Asia, Mobile Health, Health and Wellbeing, Media and Communications, Development Studies on Public Health, Community Health Workers, Mobile Phones in Health