Mobiles Lead Health

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A magazine feature by Nellie Bristol examining whether cell phones are driving an mHealth revolution in the developing world, as mobile use leapfrogs fixed lines and limited internet access. It surveys a growing wave of eHealth applications for diagnosis, health worker training, social marketing and emergency food-ration tracking, while noting that the field still faces familiar obstacles — poor interoperability, funding shortfalls and thin evidence of impact — alongside challenges specific to global health, such as scalability and infrastructure gaps, with the Rockefeller Foundation among those backing the trend.