Mobile Health Content Resources
There is a growing body of repositories of digital health content coming online. The resources below are meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive, and many lead to additional links. These resources have not been independently evaluated for content validity, or terms of use.
Baby Center/Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action: http://www.babycenter.com/mama. Vetted, adaptable SMS and audio stage-based health messages, covers pregnancy and the first year of a baby’s life.
CommCare Exchange: https://www.commcarehq.org/exchange/Existing. CommCare applications, free for anyone to use or adapt. Includes case management and monitoring tools, counseling guides for MNCH and nutrition.
Digital-Campus http://www.digital-campus.org
Digital Campus develops innovative solutions to support healthcare workers in the field and to improve their lifelong learning and training experience. Latest highlights include: using mobile technologies to improve maternal health care given by rural Health Extension Workers (HEWs) and midwives; implementing an eLearning training program for lecturers in Ethiopian universities; recently awarded a DFID GPAF Innovation project “Improving Health Extension Workers’ training and effectiveness through continuous skills improvement, knowledge assessment and patient management processes for health workers”.
OppiaMobile learning platform http://www.oppia-mobile.org
OppiaMobile is a mobile learning platform developed by Digital-Campus for delivering learning content, video and quizzes. All the content and activities can be accessed and used even when no internet connection is available. When a connection becomes available, tracking and quiz scores are sent back to the server for tutors, teachers and trainers to track the progress of their learners. Learners earn points and badges for completing activities and modules.
Global Health Media Project (GHMP)http://globalhealthmedia.org/
GHMP designs and produces video and animation to train frontline health workers more effectively in resource-limited settings. Some videos are adapted for the needs of mothers and caregivers.The videos follow international standards of care and are presented in accessible, easy-to-translate language, with an emphasis on the “how-to” of health care.They are designed for use on mobile devices and distributed widely through open assess on the Internet.
GHMPhas three initiatives underway: anewborn care serieswith 20 of 35 videos finished; a newly launched series on childbirth best practices; and an acclaimed animation,The Story of Cholera, available in 23 languages and used extensively to educate populations in the Haiti and West Africa cholera epidemics.The newborn care videos, released just over a year ago, have been viewed in 200 countriesand downloaded 6,500 times by staff from WHO, UNICEF, Health Ministries, teaching institutions, and NGOs. They are featured onWHO’s Reproductive Health Libraryand Save the Children’sHealthy Newborn Network.The videos are available inEnglish,Spanish, andSwahiliwith French and Nepali in the pipeline.
Health Education And Training (HEAT) www.open.ac.uk/africa/heat 13 modules for Community Health Worker training, developed by over 50 Ethiopian health experts with support from academics at the UK Open University, and in partnership with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of health, UNICEF, WHO and AMREF.Each modulesis made up of a series oftwo hour study sessions with self-assessment questions. They are designed to be easilyprinted for use as either face to face or distance education teaching. All of the content is open source sothe resourcescan be adapted and translated for use in other countries. The materials are in English although the maternal health Modules (Antenatal Care, Labour and Delivery, and Postnatal Care) are also available in Swahili.
HealthPhone: http://www.healthphone.org/: Provides health videos, free to download, can build a personal reference library on low-cost phones, in multiple languages.
Hesperian: http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/digital-commons. Digital tools for health promotion, designed for people with limited computer or internet access. These include:
1. Hesperian's HealthWiki: trusted and vetted health content targeted to community health workers in a flexible format that facilitates adaptation of content:http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/#ui-tabs-1
2. Hesperian Images: hosts over 12,000 Hesperian-style illustrations on various health topics, searchable by keyword:http://images.hesperian.org/libraryhome.tlx
3. Hesperian's award winning Safe Pregnancy and Birth mobile app: open source and available for free download for android or apple phones and tablets:http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/safe-pregnancy-and-birth-mobile-app/
iHeed Animation Library: http://www.iheedcrowd.org/iheedcrowd_media.html. Collection of animations created by established producers and animators specifically for health education, training and awareness.
Learn About Living: http://www.learningaboutliving.com/south/about. Content and interactive on Family Life and HIV/AIDS, developed for Nigerian NGO's and government agencies to use and distribute; other wishing to use can contact through website.
Medical Aid Films http://medicalaidfilms.org/
Medical Aid Films (MAF) aims to save the lives of women and children in developing countries throughinnocative training and education. 670 individuals and organizations are already usingMAF's films to train health workers in low resource settings. The films offer a low cost, highly scalable and sustainablemethors of uniting interventions to produce maximum effect.
Ustad Mobile www.ustadmobile.com With Ustad Mobile you can easily make rich interactive multimedia lessons with quizzes, games, video and more for widely used simple feature mobile phones. It has a point and click editor that can be used to design courseware. Cross platform compatibility engineering will finish mid November (work supported by Khalilzad Associates) to support feature phones, Android, Windows Phones, Blackberry and iOS. Delivers metrics from training sessions. Useful for training health workers and conducting education outreach.
WHO Reproductive Health Library: http://apps.who.int/rhl/videos/en/index.html. A set of training videos to help clinicians master details of manual and surgical procedures - RHL videos
October 15, 2013 mHealth Working Group and mPowering Frontline Health Workers
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