mHealth For Development

Report

‘mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World’, produced by Vital Wave Consulting for the United Nations Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, surveys the emerging mHealth field as a response to severe public health challenges across the developing world. The partnership’s three core commitments — supporting mobile telecommunications for disaster relief, developing health data systems to combat disease, and promoting technology-driven development research — frame the report’s assessment of mobile technology’s potential to strengthen healthcare access and delivery globally.