Journal article
Ownership and use of mobile phones among health workers, caregivers of sick children and adult patients in Kenya: cross-sectional national survey.
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BACKGROUND: The rapid growth in mobile phone penetration and use of Short Message Service (SMS) has been seen as a potential solution to improve medical and public health practice in Africa. Several studies have shown effectiveness of SMS interventions to improve health workers' practices, patients' adherence to medications and availability of health facility commodities. To inform policy makers about the feasibility of facility-based SMS interventions, the coverage data on mobile phone owne...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- Globalization and health
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 20
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1744-8603
- ISSN:
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1744-8603
- Source identifiers:
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401954
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- English
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pubs:401954
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- pubs:401954
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- 2013
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