Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence?
Open Access
- 12 February 2013
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 10 (2), e1001382
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001382
Abstract
Mark Tomlinson and colleagues question whether there is sufficient evidence on implementation and effectiveness to match the wide enthusiasm for mHealth interventions, and propose a global strategy to determine needed evidence to support mHealth scale-up.Keywords
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