Controlling Ebola through mHealth strategies
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The current Ebola epidemic threatens to turn into one of the most devastating public health crises of modern times unless the international community responds in a coordinated, effective fashion. Owing to the high penetration of mobile phone subscriptions in Guinea (63/100 people), Liberia (60/100 people), and Sierra Leone (44/100 people),1 mHealth strategies could be a low-cost, high-impact solution to mapping outbreaks and providing education.
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mHero is a mobile phone-based communication system created by IntraHealth International and UNICEF in 2014 in Liberia for an Ebola outbreak.
“mHero, a mobile phone-based communication system, was created by IntraHealth International and UNICEF in 2014 in Liberia for an Ebola outbreak [11].”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSMS text messaging is a simple and effective intervention for improving health service delivery in pregnant women, infectious disease cases, weight loss cases, and diabetes cases, and increasingly for smoking cessation support.
“Short message service (SMS) text messaging, in particular, has been shown to be a simple and effective intervention for improving health service delivery in pregnant women [9,10], infectious disease cases [11,12], weight loss cases [13], and diabetes cases [14] and increasingly for smoking cessation support [15-18].”
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- Authors
- O'Donovan, J., & Bersin, A.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- The Lancet Global Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-01
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e22
- ISSN
- 2214-109X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1978784535
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 8.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet Global Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
- Keywords
- Ebola virus disease, mobile health, outbreak surveillance, health education, mobile phone penetration, epidemic control, West Africa Ebola outbreak
- MeSH terms
- Africa, Western, Health Personnel, Humans, Patient Education as Topic, Telemedicine, Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola, Cell Phone
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