Assessing the Effect of mHealth Interventions in Improving Maternal and Neonatal Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.

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Published in PLoS One on May 04, 2016

Authors

Stephanie Felicie Victoria Sondaal1, Joyce Linda Browne1, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman1,2, Alexander Borgstein1, Andrea Solnes Miltenburg3, Mirjam Verwijs4,5, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch1,6

Author Affiliations

1: Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2: School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
3: Department of Community Medicine, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
4: Afya Connect(4)Change, Change Lake Zone, Mwanza, Tanzania.
5: International Institute for Communication and Development, The Hague, The Netherlands.
6: Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Associated clinical trials:

Wired Mothers - Use of Mobile Phones to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health in Zanzibar | NCT01821222

The Philani Mobile Video Intervention for Exclusive Breastfeeding (MOVIE) Study (MOVIE) | NCT03688217

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