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A Social Media mHealth Solution to Address the Needs of Dengue Prevention and Management in Sri Lanka.

May Oo LwinSantosh VijaykumarVajira Sampath RathnayakeGentatsu LimChitra PanchapakesanSchubert FooRuwan WijayamuniPrasad WimalaratneOwen Noel Newton Fernando
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2016)
Given the entrenched nature of existing paper-based systems in PHIs' work habits, we expect a gradual adoption curve for Mo-Buzz in the future. Equally, we expect variable adoption of the system with respect to its specific components, and specific PHI sub-groups (younger versus older). The Mo-Buzz intervention is a response to multiple calls by the global mHealth community for collaborations in the area of mobile interventions for global health. Our experience revealed that the benefits of this paradigm lies in alleviating country-specific public health challenges through a commonly shared understanding of cultural mores, and sharing of knowledge and technologies. We call upon future researchers to further dissect the applicability of the Spiral Model of software development to mHealth interventions and contribute to the mHealth evidence debate from theoretical and applied perspectives.
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