Mobile can protect your health
The largest promoter would be the India with 11 projects, South Africa and Uganda, with six each.
This innovative technology would aim to reduce the pressure on the public health systems, says Daniel Carucci, vice president of the health in the Foundation of the United Nations.
In Uganda, for example, a test of multiple choices on HIV / AIDS has been sent to 15,000 subscribers in the network of Celtel of a rural region, inviting them to answer questions and search the evidence.
Users who completed the questionnaire and were given time of free air each time they responded to a question wrong, received a message to inform them of the correct answer.
At the end of the test, an SMS end was sent to motivate the participants to voluntary testing, coming to the advice in a local health center.
One of every five responded and the number of people who came to the evidence in the center, increased from 1000 to 1400 during a period of six weeks, according to the report.
In another example the health workers in the state of Amazonas (Brazil) began to fill the surveys on their mobile phones on the incidence of mosquitoes and Dengue Fever.
“The devices are providing with precision the information we need to develop (effective responses) in areas where the infection levels are high,” he quoted Luzia de Melo Mustafa, an agent of health of Amazonas.
In Mexico, was launched in 1998 a line call medical Home, to provide the people without access to a health professional, attention, and the 60 percent of the time, was replacing your doctor.
According to Pedro Yrigoyen, co-founder of Medical Home said, that “The public health care is overwhelming, as regards to the saturation, because the people are waiting for hours only to see a doctor”.