239 items related to 'Digital health'
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Resources: Insight brief :
Community dialogues and mobile health: Insights from Mozambique
While ownership of mobile devices in Mozambique is growing fast, discrepancies based on gender and location remain. The socio-cultural barriers such inequalities create may limit the community’s…
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Annual Review Meeting of the upSCALE platform in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique
More than 70 participants attended a meeting to discuss the annual review of the upSCALE project, carried out by the Provincial Directorate of Heath of Cabo Delgado in partnership with Malaria…
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Malaria Consortium endorses the Principles for Digital Development
Malaria Consortium is pleased to announce its endorsement of the Principles for Digital Development. This set of nine guidelines, designed by an international working group, promotes best practice in…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Desempenho do sistema de vigilância de malária em Moçambique: uma avaliação exaustiva
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Resources: Technical brief :
Malaria surveillance system performance in Mozambique: A comprehensive assessment
Despite recent reductions in morbidity and mortality, malaria remains the largest public health problem in Mozambique, accounting for 29 percent of all hospital deaths and 42 percent of deaths among…
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Resources: Technical brief :
Essential tools for achieving malaria elimination in Myanmar
This brief discusses the effectiveness of Myanmar’s malaria surveillance system in enhancing the management and use of data. It also considers the National Malaria Control Programme's…
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Resources: Journal article :
Improving health worker performance through text messaging: A mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot intervention designed to increase coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in West Nile, Uganda
Poor health worker performance is a well-documented obstacle to quality service provision. Due to the increasingly widespread availability of mobile devices, mobile health (mHealth) has received…
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completedStrengthening Uganda's response to malaria
Strengthening Uganda's response to malaria in 16 districts in Northern and Eastern Uganda
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Resources: Training materials :
Pneumonia diagnostics: Device selection report
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five, particularly in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Community health workers (CHWs) providing health services in rural and hard…
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Resources: Project brief :
upSCALE: Strengthening of the mobile health platform to improve quality and coverage of community-based maternal and child health care and disease surveillance in Mozambique
The project aims to refine and expand a mobile health system for Mozambique's national community health worker programme to improve the quality and coverage of community-based health services and…
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Resources: Presentation :
upSCALE: A digital health system strengthening approach for improved quality of care at community level and for passive case reporting for malaria surveillance
To improve the quality of care community health workers (CHWs) in Mozambique provide, Malaria Consortium developed the upSCALE platform in 2013, together with the Ministry of Health and Unicef. The…
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From bites to bytes: Arantxa Roca-Feltrer discusses malaria surveillance to mark WHO’s 70th birthday
“Getting good data on malaria is essential. Like a puzzle, each piece fits together to help experts understand trends such as how many people are getting sick and how many have died.” - WHO This year…
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Expanding community-based mobile health (mHealth) in Mozambique
From 2012 to 2016 in Mozambique, Malaria Consortium developed and tested a mobile-phone based application to increase community health workers’ capacity to manage clinical cases better. The app…
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Videos :
VOX Cambodia: A private pharamacist uses SMS on malaria cases
Malaria Consortium piloted the use of SMS technology among private sector health providers to improve referrals and integrate private patient data into the National Malaria Information System (MIS)…
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Videos :
Pneumonia is preventable and treatable, but deadly
Malaria Consortium has been one of the leading implementers of community based primary healthcare programmes involving pneumonia diagnostics and treatment for over a decade. This includes the…
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Resources: Project brief :
Expanding rural communities' access to health services in Myanmar
The project will strengthen the ability of basic health staff to provide necessary supervision, and address shortage of stocks for rapid diagnostic tests and medicines.
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Resources: Presentation :
Improving health worker performance through text messaging: Pilot intervention designed to increase coverage of IPTp
At Roll Back Malaria's fourth annual Social Behaviour Change Communication Working Group meeting, Malaria Consortium’s Christian Rassi presented lessons learnt from a successful pilot study designed…
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Resources: Project brief :
upSCALE: A digital health platform for effective health systems
This brochure outlines the upSCALE platform, a digital strategy created to strengthen health systems and community health delivery, currently being implemented in the Mozambique provinces of…
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Resources: Journal article :
Experiences from developing and upgrading a web-based surveillance system for malaria elimination in Cambodia
Abstract Strengthening the surveillance component is key toward achieving country-wide malaria elimination in Cambodia. A web-based upgraded malaria information system (MIS) was deemed to essentially…
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completedExpanding rural communities' access to health services in Myanmar
Expanding rural health services to improve child health