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mHealth: The Possibilities of the Personal

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog.

Dykki SettleThere are more than 5 billion cell phones in use worldwide, which means globally nearly 70% of people—including children—would own a cell phone if everyone had just one cell. Yet in places like Germany, where the cell phone market penetration has reached more than 130%, many people own more than one mobile.

Mobile phones are so popular in part because they are uniquely personal communication tools. Their portability makes it possible to talk to colleagues, friends, and family from nearly anywhere and anytime.

With mobile phones, we’ve managed to extend our social circles from the immediate to the global. Read more »

Social Justice and the Global Health Workforce

Amanda PuckettThis year's American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting, themed around social justice, represented a strong commitment to addressing domestic and global health challenges, milestones, and successes. As Dr. Howard Koh, the United States assistant secretary for health, said, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”

Energized participants and presenters expressed the importance of social justice, human rights, and the intersections in public health. It has been over 100 years since the APHA annual meeting was last held in Denver, and the Mile High City did not disappoint as this year’s host. Read more »

Collaboration with Ugandan Students Expands Reach of Software Systems in the Health Sector

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog.

Interns discuss HRIS data cleaning approachesWorking in the field of global health we often hear about the global health workforce shortage: we don’t have enough doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, community health workers in developing countries. This is true, but what we hear less about is how we manage and support the people we do have, which is also crucial and one of the main charges of the Uganda Capacity Program.

One way the Uganda Capacity Program is helping to manage and support the current health workforce is through the development and rollout of the iHRIS software suite, an Open Source software solution developed under the USAID-funded and IntraHealth-led Capacity Project. Read more »

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