A Mobile Application System for Community Health Workers-A Review

Abstract

Community Health workers (CHWs) are the foundation of public health services aimed to connect the gap between communities, health and social service system, and it is done by navigating the health and human services system and educating communities on disease prevention. Unfortunately, the way of sharing and accessing information for delivering the services is often very unreliable by using manual system for reporting which can cause error and falsification. Furthermore, the Staff which performs these duties often they do not have knowledge about disease and health system training or education. To address this need, a mobile application System for CHWs is needed, which enables community health workers to automatically send a report of monthly activities without using any manual input form. Making use of the digital device (the smartphone, PDAs, and The Augmented Reality Personal Digital Assistant. The mobile application will automatically allow submit a report, transfer knowledge, sharing information and receiving training by using the user interface which will have the features like social media. Also the electronic file for entering information will be filled automatically. The system will be recording and uploaded to a central server for use by CHWs supervisor and the health manager official. This article provides ICTs with a regard to Mobile Health System and the probable of field which are lacking. Its absence is root of challenges faced by CHWs, the solutions to challenges is to design technological (Mobile Health System) which create durable, imperishable answers for tending to the world's wellbeing need.