You Have an Important Message! Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Text Message HIV/AIDS Campaign in Northwest Uganda

Chib, Arul; Wilkin, Holley A.; Ling, Leow Xue; Hoefman, Bas; Biejma, Hajo Van

doi:10.1080/10810730.2011.649104

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“…The effect of cell phones on health care delivery is of increasing inter-est. 2 Health care interventions via short message service (SMS) based on cell-phone text messages are beneficial in medicine, for public health-related uses and administrative processes. 3 SMS makes use of a text message that is storable; healthrelated knowledge can be sent to specific people, guiding medication and behavior, and encouraging self-health management.…”

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Cell phone–based health education messaging improves health literacy

Zhuang

Xiang²,

Han

et al. 2016

Afr H. Sci.

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Background: The ubiquity of cell phones, which allow for short message service (SMS), provides new and innovative opportunities for disease prevention and health education. Objective: To explore the use of cell phone-based health education SMS to improve the health literacy of community residents in China. Methods: A multi-stage random sampling method was used to select representative study communities and participants ≥ 18 years old. Intervention participants were sent health education SMSs once a week for 1 year and controls were sent conventional, basic health education measures. Health literacy levels of the residents before and after the intervention were evaluated between intervention and control groups. Results: Public health literacy scores increased 1.5 points, from 61.8 to 63.3, after SMS intervention for 1 year (P<0.01); the increase was greater for males than females (2.01 vs. 1.03; P<0.01) and for Shenzhen local residents than non-permanent residents (2.56 vs. 1.14; P<0.01). The frequency of high health literacy scores was greater for the intervention than control group (22.03% to 30.93% vs. 22.07% to 20.82%). With health literacy as a cost-effective index, the cost-effectiveness per intervention was 0.54. Conclusion: SMS may be a useful tool for improving health literacy.

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confidence: 99%

Cell phone–based health education messaging improves health literacy

Zhuang

Xiang²,

Han

et al. 2016

Afr H. Sci.

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“…From our and others’ research as well as innovations in society we have seen many recent development efforts and have been able to draw conclusions based on the effects that these development efforts have had. In the following we mention a few of the results that we think have a bearing on the digitalization of health care for developing countries: Digital technologies for preventive health care – Digital technologies may prove to be very useful for spreading information and knowledge for preventive health care: for example, using technologies for health campaigns to promote preventive health care [17]. Digital technologies can help people who suspect they have some form of disease to get more information about their symptoms and condition through online dictionaries and knowledge databases.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Digital technologies for preventive health care – Digital technologies may prove to be very useful for spreading information and knowledge for preventive health care: for example, using technologies for health campaigns to promote preventive health care [17]. Digital technologies can help people who suspect they have some form of disease to get more information about their symptoms and condition through online dictionaries and knowledge databases.…”

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confidence: 99%

Institutionalizing human-computer interaction for global health

Gulliksen

2017

Global Health Action

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Digitalization is the societal change process in which new ICT-based solutions bring forward completely new ways of doing things, new businesses and new movements in the society. Digitalization also provides completely new ways of addressing issues related to global health. This paper provides an overview of the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and in what way the field has contributed to international development in different regions of the world. Additionally, it outlines the United Nations’ new sustainability goals from December 2015 and what these could contribute to the development of global health and its relationship to digitalization. Finally, it argues why and how HCI could be adopted and adapted to fit the contextual needs, the need for localization and for the development of new digital innovations. The research methodology is mostly qualitative following an action research paradigm in which the actual change process that the digitalization is evoking is equally important as the scientific conclusions that can be drawn. In conclusion, the paper argues that digitalization is fundamentally changing the society through the development and use of digital technologies and may have a profound effect on the digital development of every country in the world. But it needs to be developed based on local practices, it needs international support and to not be limited by any technological constraints. Particularly digitalization to support global health requires a profound understanding of the users and their context, arguing for user-centred systems design methodologies as particularly suitable.

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“…Median age among adult participants was 27 years of age (interquartile range (IQR) [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] Step 2: SMS Received…”

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confidence: 99%