Evaluating the Impact of Mobile Phone Based ‘Health Help Line’ Service in Rural Bangladesh

Posted by VivianOnano on Jul 11, 2011
Author: 
Dr Md. Ashraf, Mahfuz, Noushin Laila Ansari, Bushra Tahseen Malik, Barnaly Rashid.
Publication Type: 
Report/White paper
Publication Date: 
Sep 2010
Publication language: 
English
Abstract: 

Access to basic health  service is limited in rural areas of Bangladesh, where 80% of the total population lives. For instance, 35% of doctors and 30% of nurses are located in four metropolitan districts where only 14.5% of the population lives. Most of the rural people are physically removed from qualified health care providers. Two major mobile phone service providers in Bangladesh have initiated mobile health care help line services nationwide as a remedy to this situation.

Since there is much hope of mobile phones to be used for basic health care services for populations living in rural areas, this research aims to evaluate how far such interventions reached  for the improvement of health care in those communities. Through an interpretive case-based research strategy, our field studies uncover enthusiasm from the rural people towards availing health help line services and the intervention's contribution to improved health-seeking behavior.

 

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Citation: 
Dr Md. Ashraf Mahfuz, Noushin Laila Ansari, Bushra Tahseen Malik, Barnaly Rashid. " Evaluating the Impact of Mobile Phone Based ‘Health Help Line’ Service in Rural Bangladesh." (2010)
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Author: 
Dr Md. Ashraf, Mahfuz, Noushin Laila Ansari, Bushra Tahseen Malik, Barnaly Rashid.
Publication Type: 
Report/White paper
Publication Date: 
Sep 2010
Publication language: 
English
Abstract: 

Access to basic health  service is limited in rural areas of Bangladesh, where 80% of the total population lives. For instance, 35% of doctors and 30% of nurses are located in four metropolitan districts where only 14.5% of the population lives. Most of the rural people are physically removed from qualified health care providers. Two major mobile phone service providers in Bangladesh have initiated mobile health care help line services nationwide as a remedy to this situation.

Since there is much hope of mobile phones to be used for basic health care services for populations living in rural areas, this research aims to evaluate how far such interventions reached  for the improvement of health care in those communities. Through an interpretive case-based research strategy, our field studies uncover enthusiasm from the rural people towards availing health help line services and the intervention's contribution to improved health-seeking behavior.

 

Countries: 
Citation: 
Dr Md. Ashraf Mahfuz, Noushin Laila Ansari, Bushra Tahseen Malik, Barnaly Rashid. " Evaluating the Impact of Mobile Phone Based ‘Health Help Line’ Service in Rural Bangladesh." (2010)
Featured?: 
No

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