Open AccessThe role of telehealth in supporting mothers and children during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Wendy Smith,
Sarah Taki,
Li Ming Wen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australian journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.352
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1447-4328
pISSN - 0813-0531
DOI - 10.37464/2020.373.168
Subject(s) - telehealth , pandemic , covid-19 , phone , action (physics) , project commissioning , publishing , telemedicine , nursing , health care , medicine , psychology , political science , virology , disease , linguistics , philosophy , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The role of telehealth in supporting community has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic as we found this coincidently in delivering the Healthy Beginnings program over the phone. We would urge an action to be taken to integrate telehealth into existing health services.