Advancing the dialogue on Mobile Finance and Mobile Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. As mobile network operators (MNOs) continue to try to reduce churn of customers, increas- ing switching costs by launching mHealth and MFS becomes increasingly critical. It is, there- fore, little surprise that these MNOs are working with health providers and governments to integrate mobile money into health service programs. - Washington, DC: mHealth Alliance, MORE
Electronic Recording and Reporting for Tuberculosis Care and Control - Adopting electronic recording and reporting is not simply about choosing a piece of software: it is also about changing how people work. This is not a simple undertaking. This document introduces the key questions to be considered and illustrates what the questions, options, and recommendations mean in practice by drawing on examples of recent experience from a variety of countries. It is an MORE
Framework for Engagement: Leverging Mobile Technologies for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The global community has identified improving maternal, newborn and child health (“mnCh”) as a strategic development priority, embedding the goal within millennium Development goals 4 (reducing child mortality) and 5 (improving mothers’ health). while there has been global progress toward achieving these goals by the target date of 2015, there are still significant MORE
GSMA mWomen Research Toolkit - This toolkit contains all research tools used to create ‘Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Base of the Pyramid Women’, which is a full length research report surveying the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The research tools include: (1) Ethnography Observation Guide; (2) Focus Group Discussion Guides; (3) Opinion Leader MORE
Improving Health Communications in Kenya: A Feasibility Study on Engaging Frontline Healthcare Workers in Using Mobile Technology - The Internews Center for Innovation & Learning commissioned a study to explore the potential for community health workers and traditional birth attendants in Kenya to use an interactive mobile platform to improve the dissemination of health information in their communities. Internews’ Kenya office and the research team jointly determined two initial research sites to capture data from two MORE
Leveraging Mobile Technologies to Promote Maternal & Newborn Health - mHealth Alliance Publication. The Current Landscape and opportunities for advancement in low-resource settings. The objective of this report is twofold: (1) to describe the current state of mhealth intervention design, implementation, and evaluation that can be leveraged to improve maternal and newborn health globally and (2) to identify ways to strategically advance mhealth in MORE
MAMA Global Monitoring and Evaluation Framework - This framework is a guide for project implementers to help them develop national Monitoring and Evaluation plans to monitor and report on progress when implementing mobile messaging programs for mothers. Why it helps with planning: Comprehensive M&E example to support M&E strategy development. Provides an example theory of change model and ideas for data collection methods, key M MORE
MAMA's Introductory Workshop on Mobile Messaging to Mothers getting started checklist - A checklist on pre-implementation considerations created by mHealth experts. MORE
mBCC Field Guide: A Resource for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Programs - This resource helps users guide the design of mobile applications for health and provides insights about what works in mobile behavior change communication (mBCC). Compiled by Abt Associates, the guide examines what is known about the power of mobile communication tools to influence health behaviors for consumers and health care providers. Why it helps with planning: This is a planning MORE
mHealth Education - mHealth Alliance Publication. Harnessing the Mobile Revolution to Bridge the Health Education & Training Gap in Developing Countries. The iheed Institute and Dalberg Global Development Advisors have prepared this report to set the stage for mHealthEd 2011 at GSMA mHealth Alliance Mobile Health Summit, which is the first dedicated conference on the emerging phenomenon of mobile MORE
National eHealth Strategy Toolkit - The National eHealth Strategy Toolkit is an expert, practical guide that provides governments, their ministries and stakeholders with a solid foundation and method for the development and implementation of a national eHealth vision, action plan and monitoring framework. All countries, whatever their level of development, can adapt the Toolkit to suit their own circumstances. The Toolkit is a MORE
Preparing the Next Generation of Community Health Workers - mHealth Alliance Publication. This study identifies opportunities to train CHWs more cost-effectively through technology-enabled multimedia content that leverages visuals, videos, or audio. Additionally, it highlights the potential to create open, easily sharable digital content that could act as a crucial ingredient for new approaches to training and learning in the future. May 2012 MORE
Preventing Mother to Child Transmission - mHealth Alliance Publication. A report on mHealth strategies to strengthen collaboration and increase impact of PMTCT initiatives. By Frog, UNICEF, EGPAF, Jonhson & Johnson, and the mHealth Alliance. July 2012 MORE
The Role of mHealth in the Fight Against Tuberculosis - mHealth Alliance Publication. To bring about a step change in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), we need new tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from this disease. Could mHealth be a solution? A new paper from the mHealth Alliance and Stop TB Partnership explores this topic. Washington, DC and Geneva: mHealth Alliance and Stop TB Partnership, May 2012 MORE
Using Mobile Technology for Healthier Aging - mHealth Alliance Publication. Globally, there is a demographic transition underway. People are living longer. Even though “old” is defined differently across the world, there will be more people ov er the age of 65 than children under five by 2015.1 By 2050, there will be an estimated 1.5 billion people age 65 or older. December 2012 MORE