This study looked at how Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Wakiso district, Uganda, accept digital payments. Most CHWs had used mobile money before, and over half were open to using digital payments. The study found that CHWs who trusted digital payments were more likely to use them, while those worried about risks were less likely to adopt them. Qualitative interviews … [Read more...] about Adoptability of digital payments for community health workers in peri-urban Uganda: A case study of Wakiso district
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Development of a Digital Platform to Promote Mother and Child Health in Underserved Areas of a Lower-Middle-Income Country: Mixed Methods Formative Study
This study explored whether a digital app could improve the communication skills of community health workers (CHWs) to better support mothers and children in underserved areas of Islamabad. Researchers developed and tested "Sehat Ghar," a video-based health education app, training 10 volunteer CHWs to use it. The CHWs showed significant improvement in their knowledge and … [Read more...] about Development of a Digital Platform to Promote Mother and Child Health in Underserved Areas of a Lower-Middle-Income Country: Mixed Methods Formative Study
Digital Health Technologies for Maternal and Child Health in Africa and Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cross-disciplinary Scoping Review With Stakeholder Consultation
This review sought to synthesize the existing published literature in three major disciplines on the use of digital health interventions for maternal and child health (MCH) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The disciplines under investigation included public health, social sciences applied to health, and … [Read more...] about Digital Health Technologies for Maternal and Child Health in Africa and Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cross-disciplinary Scoping Review With Stakeholder Consultation
Digital Health-Enabled Community-Centered Care: Scalable Model to Empower Future Community Health Workers Using Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence
The goal of this paper was to outline a scalable digital health-enabled community-centered care model (D-CCC) aimed at empowering future CHWs using human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence. This D-CCC model was developed from a multidisciplinary collaboration among nursing, computer science, engineering, and human-computer interaction experts. It transforms manual and … [Read more...] about Digital Health-Enabled Community-Centered Care: Scalable Model to Empower Future Community Health Workers Using Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence
Analyzing 3429 digital supervisory interactions between Community Health Workers in Uganda and Kenya: the development, testing and validation of an open access predictive machine learning web app
The goal of this study was to document the development and validation of the web application, CHWsupervisor, while reporting its predictive accuracy. CHWsupervisor was developed as an open access, machine learning web application to predictively code instant messages exchanged between CHWs based on supervisory interaction codes. It was created using instant messages exchanged … [Read more...] about Analyzing 3429 digital supervisory interactions between Community Health Workers in Uganda and Kenya: the development, testing and validation of an open access predictive machine learning web app
