TY  - BOOK
AU  - al Dahdah, Marine
TI  - Mobile (for) development: when digital giants take care of poor women
T2  - Elements in global development studies
SN  - 9781009202428
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cell phones
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Ghana
KW  - India
KW  - Poor women
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Social responsibility of business
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-77); 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
N2  - 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
ER  -