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Management challenges in mHealth: failures of a mobile community health worker surveillance programme in rural Nepal

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  • David J Meyers Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Practice, and Policy, Providence, RI, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Malina Filkins University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alex Harsha Bangura Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, Martinez, CA, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ranju Sharma Medic Mobile, Kathmandu, Nepal PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ashma Baruwal Possible, Bayalpata Hospital, Sanfebagar-10, Achham, Nepal PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sami Pande United Nations Population Fund, Kathmandu, Nepal PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Scott Halliday Possible, Bayalpata Hospital, Sanfebagar-10, Achham, Nepal University of Washington, Henry M Jackson School of International Studies, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dan Schwarz Possible, Bayalpata Hospital, Sanfebagar-10, Achham, Nepal Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Boston, MA, USA Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston, MA, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ryan K Schwarz Possible, Bayalpata Hospital, Sanfebagar-10, Achham, Nepal Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Boston, MA, USA Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Duncan S R Maru Possible, Bayalpata Hospital, Sanfebagar-10, Achham, Nepal Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health Equity, Boston, MA, USA Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston, MA, USA Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Duncan S R Maru, Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; duncan{at}possiblehealth.org
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Meyers DJ, Filkins M, Harsha Bangura A, et al
Management challenges in mHealth: failures of a mobile community health worker surveillance programme in rural Nepal
BMJ Innovations 2017;3:19-25.

Publication history

  • Received November 18, 2015
  • Revised April 18, 2016
  • Accepted December 4, 2016
  • First published January 17, 2017.
Online issue publication 
January 30, 2017

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