Mobile Health Information and Decision Support System Architecture: Enhancing Maternal Healthcare Access in Uganda
Martin Morgan Kusasira, Anthony Atwiine, Joseph Wamema · 2025
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Description
Martin Morgan Kusasira, Anthony Atwiine, and Joseph Wamema design a phone-based system to get maternal health information to mothers in Uganda. Too many mothers die in childbirth there, partly because sound information arrives late or never. The team interviewed fifty people at two health facilities: pregnant and new mothers, medical workers, and village health team members. Their answers exposed the main blocks to information.
Money worries, weak support from spouses, long waits, brusque staff attitudes, and language gaps all kept mothers from learning what they needed. Clinics were the main source, yet the information often came late and missed each mother's situation. The proposed system design pushes timely, relevant guidance in several languages straight to mothers' phones. The authors say such reach could sharpen mothers' decisions and cut deaths in poor regions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Martin Morgan Kusasira, Anthony Atwiine, Joseph Wamema |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |