Family Planning Counseling in Your Pocket: A Mobile Job Aid for Community Health Workers in Tanzania

Agarwal, Smisha; Lasway, Christine; L’Engle, Kelly; Homan, Rick; Layer, Erica H.; Ollis, Steve; Braun, Rebecca; Silas, Lucy; Mwakibete, Anna; Kudrati, Mustafa

doi:10.9745/ghsp-d-15-00393

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“…The data collected during these routine community-level service-provision visits were stored in electronic forms and sent to a central server that could be accessed by district-level health staff. 57 This type of intervention improves not only the quality and comprehensiveness of services provided by lay health workers at the community level but also facilitates appropriate linkages to care and management at the facility level.…”

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Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices

Orton

Agarwal

Muhoza

et al. 2018

Glob Health Sci Pract

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Delivery of high-quality efficient health services is a cornerstone of the global agenda to achieve universal health coverage. Digital health interventions for service delivery, such as digital health-enhanced referral coordination and mobile clinical decision support systems, demonstrate considerable potential to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of care received by patients but require greater standardization and engagement of health workers at different levels of the health system for effective scale up.

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Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices

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Muhoza

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Glob Health Sci Pract

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“…This can be in the form of checklists for routine care such as antenatal visits, decision support for diagnosis of illness, and video or graphic counseling messages from the provider directly to the client. Numerous studies have shown the advantage of using decision support, 10,11 video counseling, 12 and digital supervision strategies 13 to improve quality. Though many of these strategies are in their infancy, they are increasingly being adopted by countries as core components of their health strategies.…”

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Digital Technology and the Future of Health Systems

Mitchell

Kan

2019

Health Systems & Reform

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Digital health is having a profound effect on health systems, changing the balance of power between provider and patient, enabling new models of care, and shifting the focus of health systems toward client-centered health care within low-and middle-income countries. Though many of these changes are just being felt due to resistance by organizations and individuals reluctant to change the status quo, the explosive growth of digital technology globally means that these changes are inevitable. We can expect to see increasing use of telemedicine for remote diagnostics and treatment, protocol-driven health care to improve quality of care, and better access to goods and services through changes in the organization of transportation and delivery services. Data will become central to health systems, whether big data and artificial intelligence tools for surveillance, planning, and management or "personalized data" in the form of universal electronic record systems and customized treatment protocols. As with any disruptive innovation, the growth of digital health will also bring challenges, including who owns, controls, and manages the data being collected and how to maintain privacy and confidentiality in this data-rich world.

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“…We adapted the BCS, a toolkit developed by the Population Council to facilitate high-quality, individualised contraceptive counselling. [22][23][24] The BCS uses a series of questions to narrow method choices to those that are most consistent with a woman's reproductive values and preferences. Visual aids are used to guide counselling and illustrate the relative effectiveness of the methods.…”

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Community-based postpartum contraceptive counselling in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods evaluation

Tiwari

Choudhury

et al. 2020

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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Unmet need for postpartum contraception in rural Nepal remains high and expanding access to sexual and reproductive healthcare is essential to achieving universal healthcare. We evaluated the impact of an integrated intervention that employed community health workers aided by mobile technology to deliver patient-centred, home-based antenatal and postnatal counselling on postpartum modern contraceptive use. This was a pre-post-intervention study in seven village wards in a single municipality in rural Nepal. The primary outcome was modern contraceptive use among recently postpartum women. We performed a multivariable logistic regression to examine contraceptive use among postpartum women pre-and one-year post-intervention. We conducted qualitative interviews to explore the implementation process. There were 445

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Family Planning Counseling in Your Pocket: A Mobile Job Aid for Community Health Workers in Tanzania

Cited by 32 publications

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Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices

Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices

Digital Technology and the Future of Health Systems

Community-based postpartum contraceptive counselling in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods evaluation

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