Mobile (for) development when digital giants take care of poor women Marine al Dahdah

By:

al Dahdah, Marine

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Elements in global development studiesPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022Description: 77 p. 23 cmISBN:

9781009202428

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Contents:

Introduction; 1. Mobile Health: a 'simply brilliant' innovation; 2. Key concepts and methods for studying mHealth; 3. Global dependencies and North-South inequalities; 4. Datafication, data work and data management of healthcare; 5. Optimisation and performance management of healthcare workers; 6. Intersecting technological inequalities; 7. Conclusion and implications for future research.

Summary: Through a multi-sited ethnography on maternal care in Ghana and India, this Element provides a first-hand look at initiatives that promise to improve poor women's health in the Global South through the use of mobile phones; a field known as Mobile Health or mHealth.

List(s) this item appears in: IFP SS Acquisition list 2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-77)

Through a multi-sited ethnography on maternal care in Ghana and India, this Element provides a first-hand look at initiatives that promise to improve poor women's health in the Global South through the use of mobile phones; a field known as Mobile Health or mHealth.

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