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Mandy Sugrue recommended Community Health Workers and Mobile Technology: A Systematic Review of the Literature
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In low-resource settings, community health workers are frontline providers who shoulder the health service delivery burden. Increasingly, mobile technologies are developed, tested, and deployed with community health workers to facilitate tasks and...
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