Comparing a paper based monitoring and evaluation system to a mHealth system to support the national community health worker programme, South Africa: an evaluation.

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Published in BMC Med Inform Decis Mak on August 09, 2014

Authors

Sunisha Neupane1, Willem Odendaal, Irwin Friedman, Waasila Jassat, Helen Schneider, Tanya Doherty

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. sunisha.neupane@gmail.com.

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