BACKGROUND There is a growing body of literature outlining the promise of mobile information and communication technologies to improve healthcare in resource-constrained contexts. METHODS We reviewed the literature related to mobile information and communication technologies which aim to improve healthcare in resource-constrained contexts, in order to glean general observations regarding the ...

background: mobile phone is one of the most important necessary tools in today’s life which can threaten people’s health in some conditions. the present study was carried out to compare the effect of educational intervention by short message and pamphlet on the behavior of steel factory staff in ardakan, yazd province, iran.materials and methods: the present study was experimentally carried out...

a Dimagi, Inc., 585 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 3, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Correspondence to Vikram Kumar (email: [email protected]) Ruby, a 16-year-old girl who has recently entered puberty, sits next to an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), named Sangeeta, who lives in Ruby’s village Kalua in Bihar and provides basic health services and education as a volunteer for India’s National ...

Background: The risk of cell phone addiction is a social and psychological problem which has been proposed by ‎psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational supervisors. The present study aimed to investigate the ‎behavior of mobile phone addicts and mental health of university students of Shahrekord, Iran‎. Methods: This study was an applied research survey for the purposes of this study. The ...

BACKGROUND There is significant potential for mobile health technology to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. However, there is a need for further development of mobile health technology that would help to improve the health of lower-income communities. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to assess mobile phone and app usage among a culturally diverse patient population,...

Radiol Bras. 2014 Mar/Abr;47(2):IX mHealth, or mobile health is a term associated with the daily practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as cell phones and tablets. It is an universal trend of convergence of all patients’ information and images, data banks as source of information, academic social networks, specialized remote support systems and alike, as a suppo...

Partnerships among health care and information technology researchers and designers worldwide are creating mobile health tools tailored to local community needs and resources. Much of the hardware and infrastructure comes from developed countries of the so-called global North. From both these countries as well as developing countries in the global "South" are coming applications that enable hea...

Background I schemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Cardiac rehabilitation is an evidencebased, cost-effective, multidisciplinary program of individual patient risk factor assessment and management, exercise training, and psychosocial support for patients with heart disease that reduces mortality by 12% to 34% (Table 1). Cardiac rehabilitation is recomme...