Cellphone Use for Education & Awareness (Natalia & Nelson)

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CELL PHONES FOR HEALTH

EDUCATION AND

AWARENESSNelson Amaya

Natalia Salaverra


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When users send a text

message using different

services, the text message

they receive in response

will provide them with

information about differenthospitals and clinics they

can visit for information

about their status and any

treatment need for free.

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The diabetes institute is using Internet enabled

mobile phones to play a 15-30 second videowhich provides content on exercising, blood

glucose and diet.

Another use of mobile phones is to members

wit traumatic brain injury. The first phase of theproject will send out text messages to the members'

own plussed up cell phone calling plans and will

include educational announcements, sleep hygiene

measures, medication and appointment reminders,

and helpful hints tailored to the unique problems that

they may be encountering.

Plussed up cell phone calling plans cheap and already paid phone plans


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How does SMS auto-response system Work?

People in Africa send a text message to thenumber "248467" this is for "AHTIMP"

(African health tips in Mobile phone) the

system creates a Mailing list that records the

phone number of the people requesting the

service, all the people in the mailing list will

be sent a notifications daily about health tips

such as how to prevent getting sick or what isa increasing threat such as Swine flu was in El

Salvador


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Another Example:

The potential extreme of a cell phones healthimpact can be traced to a BBC report last

December of a British doctor saving the life

of a teenage boy who had a badly infected

and gangrenous arm wound in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo. The report

said the doctor performed a successful

forequarter amputation on the boy inOctober in the town of Rutshuru after

receiving step-by-step instructions by text

message from an expert colleague in


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Social / Ethical Issues

Text messages that are sent are written in locallanguages. This becomes a benefit because the

fact that citizens know the language will

encourage participation. Absence to other resources such as laptops

have caused mobile phones to be the central

component for people to access information.

E.g. "Over half the world (or about 4 billion people) own

a cell phone and only 400 million own a computer, so

it's only a matter of time before everyone uses a cell

phone for all their computing needs,"


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Some countries are strongly aware that they

have a high rate of diseases such as HIV.However, they are treated and manage to

test themselves when they are about to die.

Another challenge being faced by using

mobile phones for health awareness in every

country is that despite the fact that text

messages in some places like Africa are sent

in local language, in some countries they arenot. Many diverse languages in the same

country will require translation.


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Illiteracy rates will other be an issue

regarding the use of mobile phones formedical awareness. People that are not able

to read will miss the awareness of the

disease and therefore this causing that they

dont visit any clinic or hospital for medical

awareness.

Illiteracy rates can be overcome through the

use of audio clips, images or video. However,this can be time consuming and at the same

time not all mobile phones will support this

application.


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Some developing countries with lack of electricity resources

will might need to implement the development of solar

panels to have a source to power cell phones. This can beexpensive for LEDCS.

Expensive cost regarding the change from proprietary

software and develop open source software.

Proprietary software -This is a computer software that hasrestriction on any modification, use, or distribution of the

software because of copyright usually proprietary software

have to be paid for. An example Google Earth and Win zip

Open Source Software Is a software that is general for public

and can be modified free of charge, this type of software isfree and they started because they are for programmers to

use them and modify them to improve the original software.


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HOW THEY ARE USED IN OOBUNTA

Village A as shown in line 43 A cell (mobile) phone and a landlinephone connection.

Mobile phone Campaign for village A & C

Oobuta can start a campaign collecting mobile phones that people don't

use anymore from MEDC, because this instead of being E-waste will be

reuse of electronic materials. Most people in Oobunta are going to beaccepting this phones and this phone should be subscribed to the SMS

auto response system so that mobile phone users have health tip on

their mobile phones daily, so that they can protect against diseases and

reduce the spent on medicine, the use of resources and also the

mortality rates in Oobunta.

Moreover, in village A the fact that they have phone connection canbenefit not only the patients but employees itself as they can receive

text messages from Oobunta Hospital with step to step instructions on

how to treat a symptom or operation. This can also reduce the need for

employee training


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Village B This can be a concern as they dont

provide the use of mobile phones or coverage. Thiscan increase the rate of diseases or the number of

patients coming in for treatment as they dont have

a constant reminder to create awareness.

Dr Ogola believes the rapid growth in the use ofmobile phones and the Internet could revolutionize

the way people receive treatment Line 15. Village

B have neither Internet access nor mobile phone

coverage therefore this wouldnt apply anddevelopment in Village B can be stuck compared to

others.


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Village C- only have the use of mobile phone. The

same method can be implemented to village C

which again will not only benefit patients but also

employees as they can receive information on

treatments from other important stakeholders like

Dr. Ogola or Oobunta hospital.

At the same time the receiving of text messages is

free therefore it can also benefit patients as money

wouldnt be spent in medical consultations and at

the same time training might reduce the fact that

patients need to look for transportation from one

village to the hospital.


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Bibliography

http://fhpr.osd.mil/intlhealth/news.jsp?newsI

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7688268.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/nyregio

n/12econdom.html?_r=1

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