A5017207887- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- ICT in Developing Communities
Johns Hopkins University
2019-2020
While early identification of neonatal illness can impact mortality rates and reduce the burden treatment, identifying subtle clinical signs symptoms possible severe is especially challenging in neonates. The World Health Organization United Nations Children's Fund developed Integrated Management Neonatal Childhood Illness guidelines, an evidence-based tool highlighting seven danger to assess health. Currently, many mothers low-resource settings rely on home visits from community health...
Background A shortage of community health workers to triage sick neonates and poor recognition neonatal illness by mothers contribute significantly toward deaths in low- middle-income countries. Providing low-resource communities with the tools knowledge recognize signs distress can lead early care-seeking behavior. To empower educate illness, we developed a assessment device consisting smartphone app wearable sensor (the NeMo system). Objective The aim this study was determine if rural...