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Patricia Mechael on mHealth, or mobile health, in Africa

EarthSky

Health care workers are using cell phones to improve the health of pregnant women and babies in small villages in Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and seven other African countries. EarthSky spoke with Dr. Patricia Mechael, an advisor on mHealth, or mobile health, for the U.N.’s Millennium Villages Project.

衛(wèi)生保健工作者正利用手機改善非洲肯尼亞、埃塞俄比亞、盧旺達及其他7國農(nóng)村地區(qū)孕婦和嬰兒的健康狀況。EarthSky采訪到的是帕特麗夏?米歇爾博士，她是聯(lián)合國“千禧村”移動醫(yī)療項目的顧問。

Patricia Mechael: In many areas you might not have roads, but you’ll have the telecommunications networks.

帕特麗夏?米歇爾：非洲很多地區(qū)都沒馬路，但是有通信網(wǎng)絡(luò)。

Mechael is working on a mobile health program called Child Count Plus, launched in January 2010. It uses cellphones to help monitor the health of pregnant women, newborns, and children under the age of 5. Mechael told us that when community health workers make routine visits to a household, they communicate health information about pregnant women and babies to the Child Count Plus central location. Child Count Plus texts back with recommended health advice. According to the U.N., Africa is the continent that’s experiencing the fastest growth in cellphone use.

米歇爾正致力于2010年1月啟動的移動醫(yī)療健康項目的實施，該項目稱為“兒童健康計劃”，是利用手機監(jiān)察孕婦、新生兒和5歲以下兒童的健康狀態(tài)。米歇爾告訴我們，社區(qū)醫(yī)療工作者定期訪問某一家庭，將收集到的孕婦和嬰兒的健康信息發(fā)給“兒童健康計劃”項目中心部?！皟和】涤媱潯钡墓ぷ魅藛T則用短信回復(fù)相應(yīng)的保健建議。據(jù)聯(lián)合國調(diào)查，非洲是手機用戶的增長速度最快的地區(qū)。

Patricia Mechael: There are market forces that are driving the spread of the networks themselves, but also the prioritization by individuals to buy mobile phones and to subscribe to mobile phone service. So what we’re trying to do is capitalize on something that individuals have already prioritized themselves.

帕特麗夏?米歇爾：通信網(wǎng)絡(luò)的迅速發(fā)展不僅歸功于市場的驅(qū)動力量，人們優(yōu)先考慮購買手機和訂閱手機服務(wù)的舉動也發(fā)揮了很大的作用。所以我們要利用人們優(yōu)先購買及使用手機這一事實。

Mechael predicted that in a few years, health services using cell phones will be commonplace in the developing world.

米歇爾預(yù)計，幾年后，基于手機的移動醫(yī)療服務(wù)會在發(fā)展中國家得到普及。

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