Marine Al Dahdah (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNR

Mobile (For) Development

When Digital Giants Take Care of Poor Women

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a multi-sited ethnography on maternal care in Ghana and India, this Element provides a first-hand look at initiatives that promise to improve poor women's health in the Global South through the use of mobile phones; a field known as Mobile Health or mHealth.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Global Development Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 146g
• ISBN-13: 9781009202428
• ISBN-10: 1009202421
• Artikelnr.: 64667728

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Mobile Health: a 'simply brilliant' innovation
2. Key concepts and methods for studying mHealth
3. Global dependencies and North-South inequalities
4. Datafication, data work and data management of healthcare
5. Optimisation and performance management of healthcare workers
6. Intersecting technological inequalities
7. Conclusion and implications for future research.