Using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) to Model mHealth Impact on Neonatal Survival in Resource-Limited Settings

While the importance of mHealth scale-up has been broadly emphasized in the mHealth community, it is necessary to guide scale up efforts and investment in ways to help achieve the mortality reduction targets set by global calls to action such as the Millennium Development Goals, not merely to expand...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one Jg. 9; H. 7; S. e102224
Hauptverfasser:	Jo, Youngji, Labrique, Alain B., Lefevre, Amnesty E., Mehl, Garrett, Pfaff, Teresa, Walker, Neff, Friberg, Ingrid K.
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States Public Library of Science 11.07.2014 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Schlagworte:	Bangladesh Cellular telephones Child Child mortality Childrens health Communication Computer and Information Sciences Data collection Delivery, Obstetric - education Delivery, Obstetric - rehabilitation Developing Countries Families & family life Female Health aspects Health promotion Humans Immunization Infant Infant mortality Infant Mortality - ethnology Infant Mortality - trends Infant, Newborn Initiatives Maternal Health Services - organization & administration Maternal Health Services - statistics & numerical data Medicine and Health Sciences Mortality Neonates Newborn babies Newborn infants Portable computers Pregnancy Public health R&D Reproductive health Research & development Science Policy Social Sciences Software Survival Telemedicine Telemedicine - organization & administration Telemedicine - statistics & numerical data Text messaging Uganda Underserved populations Uganda Bangladesh United States > US Maryland Baltimore Maryland
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Zusammenfassung:	While the importance of mHealth scale-up has been broadly emphasized in the mHealth community, it is necessary to guide scale up efforts and investment in ways to help achieve the mortality reduction targets set by global calls to action such as the Millennium Development Goals, not merely to expand programs. We used the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)--an evidence-based modeling software--to identify priority areas for maternal and neonatal health services, by formulating six individual and combined interventions scenarios for two countries, Bangladesh and Uganda. Our findings show that skilled birth attendance and increased facility delivery as targets for mHealth strategies are likely to provide the biggest mortality impact relative to other intervention scenarios. Although further validation of this model is desirable, tools such as LiST can help us leverage the benefit of mHealth by articulating the most appropriate delivery points in the continuum of care to save lives.
Bibliographie:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 Conceived and designed the experiments: ABL YJJ AEL IKF. Performed the experiments: YJJ. Analyzed the data: YJJ IKF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABL NW GM. Wrote the paper: YJJ ABL IKF AEL TP GM. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0102224