A Mobile Application System for Community Health Workers: A Review

Community Health workers (CHW) are the foundation of public health services which aimed at bridging the gap between communities, health and social service system, navigating the health and human services system and educating communities on disease prevention unfortunately, the way of sharing and accessing information for delivering the services is often very unreliable, using manual system for reporting which can cause error and falsification. Furthermore, the Staff which performs these duties often they do not have knowledge about disease and health system training or education. To address this need, developing of A Mobile application System for CHWs), which enables community health workers to automatically send report of monthly activities without using any manual input form. Making use of digital device (the smart phone, PDAs, and augmented stability the mobile application wills automatically allow submit report, transfer knowledge, sharing information and receiving training by using the user interface which will be have the features like social media. Also the electronic file for entering information. The system will be recording and uploaded to a central server for use by CHWs supervisor and the health manager official.

Author(s): Gahizi Emmanuel

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