Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate the Health Agenda in Nigeria: Issues and Opportunities
@inproceedings{Ezenwa2013UsingMT, title={Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate the Health Agenda in Nigeria: Issues and Opportunities}, author={C. Ezenwa and L. Brooks}, booktitle={UKAIS}, year={2013} }
In today’s information and technology era, new opportunities abound for the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly in less developed regions, for the purpose of addressing healthcare challenges in the provision of quality care to citizens. A key element is poor dissemination of timely knowledge and information to improve public health and support decision making in order to bring about improvements in all areas of healthcare delivery. This paper describes a study… CONTINUE READING
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