The medical services provided through the mobile phone is expanding globally.
Technology has enhanced its mobile phone growth in low-income countries since many years. Also today, an improvement of health of the population who are difficult to have access to a doctor. Said David Iellowrd, Executive Director "of the Union of Health" (mHealth Alliance) The health sector has become very focused on the explosion of the broad wireless technology.
According to the Iellowrd, the movement of the health sector to provide advice, diagnosis, treatment and even over the phone not only reinforced by the new technology but also the perception that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved only by following the new methods.
Ten years ago, the United Nations established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that seek to eradicate poverty, and the registration of all children in primary schools, and to promote equality between women and men, and the fight against AIDS and malaria, ensuring environmental stability, all by the year 2015.
Iellowrd said, "More money alone will not achieve that." He added, "We need to look to the system in a different way. People are searching for new answers," The health information by mobile phone, which is often dubbed "M-Health" (mHealth), one of these answers.
The first generation of mobile phones capable of making medical information more accessible for doctors and patients alike. According to the World Health Organization, 90 percent of the world's population and 80 percent of the rural population living in places where the signal is available a mobile phone. Has become the place of occurrence is less important than ever when it comes to the ability of the patient to contact a health-care workers. In fact, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to achieve some goals of the United Nations to combat AIDS and malaria, often working in areas where there are no possibility to connect to the Internet, and therefore facilitate communication by means other than the Internet has become essential.
Recruit many of the non-governmental organizations working in the health of the communities, whose numbers are increasing throughout the world, and those who work essential stepping stones to improve health in poor communities, where often the health infrastructure with little or no. As long as those workers with mobile phones, they can diagnose from a distance, and track prevalence and management of health data. They are using software service phone text messages (SMS) is possible to inform the patients about the benefits of health practices, which urges to make changes in behavior to help in the fight against AIDS or unwanted pregnancies.
Some organizations that use a non-profit "educational entertainment" on the phone to educate more patients at the same time Tslehm it.Organization "text messages for change" (Text to Change), a Dutch organization is a non profit organization working actively in sub-Saharan Africa, interactive tests sent by short message service on health topics relevant to local communities.
Encouraged the modern project of the "text messages for change" (Text to Change) in Mbarara, Uganda, voluntary testing for HIV / AIDS.Participants received a weekly test questions, and in the end of the project, they have the opportunity to win prizes in the local center for counseling and testing. Participating clinics have seen an increase in visitors coming to it for the first time by nearly 35 percent, immediately after the launch of the program, according to the organization in question. Iniesta said Opole, winner, "I never imagined I would get this amount of health information via mobile phone."
A couple in the city of genetically-eastern Uganda, participating in a health awareness campaign and training programs on the use of SMS on a mobile phone.
And the positive effects of participation in these competitions beyond the limits of awareness raising. Ooujera Duncan said he gained "greater courage and strength," because he learned that it is not the only one who had been diagnosed as carrying HIV (HIV).
Organization "text messages in the forefront of medical matters" (FrontlineSMS: Medic), is the leading organization in the field of SMS messaging services to health care, communications and medical record-keeping. It is through the use of open source software free of the Organization (FrontlineSMS), allow the company by the two-way communication between doctors and health workers in communities, which it says saves time and money and, ultimately, save the lives of patients.
Said Laura W. Hudson, from the Organization of text messages in the front line, "The SMS service is the way to interact with more people exposed to risks in a sustainable manner," because they exceed the costs of medical care and logistical difficulties inherent in the treatment of patients living in remote areas.
While individual data are essential for personal care, but one of the largest obstacles to the wider control of infectious diseases, is the lack of data on the population. The knowledge of the number of patients in the communities, and how they can spread the disease, is vital in order to stop the spread as soon as possible.
The World Bank believes, is one of financiers of "surveillance program" (EpiSurveyor), mobile phone software that constitute a possible solution to this problem. Surveillance program and this program is a free telephone is in use in sub-Saharan Africa allows for the preparation of health professionals and the use of polls. Through the compilation of digital data and make the search easier, medical experts can respond to crises.
Despite successes in certain projects, the health solutions through the mobile phone can not yet claim they affect large numbers of people in a sustainable manner.
The infrastructure of the cellular phone and widespread, but participate in it varies considerably by region.
There is still room for growth in low-income areas. In Africa, specifically, the proportion of subscribers to the mobile phone only 41 percent, according to the World Health Organization. But, as long as the health workers in communities to have access to mobile phones, will programs continue to "M-Health" (mHealth) evolution.
Iellowrd said, "What people do is that they indicated that technically you can do something useful," he said, "But that did not happen, he is doing so on a large scale."
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