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Mobile health for cancer in low to middle income countries: priorities for research and development
Author(s) -
Holeman I.,
Evans J.,
Kane D.,
Grant L.,
Pagliari C.,
Weller D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/ecc.12250
Subject(s) - medicine , low and middle income countries , economic growth , cancer , developing country , gerontology , environmental health , economics
Many current global health opportunities have less to do with new biomedical knowledge than with the coordination and delivery of care. While basic research remains vital, the growing cancer epidemic in countries of low and middle income warrants urgent action – focusing on both research and service delivery innovation. Mobile technology can reduce costs, improve access to health services, and strengthen health systems to meet the interrelated challenges of cancer and other noncommunicable diseases. Experience has shown that even very poor and remote communities that only have basic primary health care can benefit from mobile health (or ‘m H ealth’) interventions. We argue that cancer researchers and practitioners have an opportunity to leverage m H ealth technologies that have successfully targeted other health conditions, rather than reinventing these tools. We call for particular attention to human centred design approaches for adapting existing technologies to suit distinctive aspects of cancer care and to align delivery with local context – and we make a number of recommendations for integrating m H ealth delivery research with the work of designers, engineers and implementers in large‐scale delivery programmes.

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