mHealth Innovation in Asia: Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions (Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications)

This book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and demonstrates how a research focus on diverse Asian contexts influences the success and/or failure of current mHealth initiatives. It also highlights the important roles social scientists can play in advancing theoretical approaches, as well as planning, implementing and evaluating mHealth initiatives. The book is a valuable resource for project planners, policy developers in NGOs and government institutions, as well as academics, researchers and students in the fields of public health, communications and development studies. This book is open access under a CC BY license Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction: Social and Cultural Futures—The Everyday Use and Shifting Discourse of mHealth (Emma Baulch, Jerry Watkins, Amina Tariq)....Pages 1-6 One Size Does Not Fit All: The Importance of Contextually Sensitive mHealth Strategies for Frontline Female Health Workers (Amina Tariq, Sameera Durrani)....Pages 7-29 The Path to Scale: Navigating Design, Policy, and Infrastructure (Jay Evans, Shreya Bhatt, Ranju Sharma)....Pages 31-48 The Use of Mobile Phones in Rural Javanese Villages: Knowledge Production and Information Exchange Among Poor Women with Diabetes (Dyah Pitaloka)....Pages 49-67 Identifying Grassroots Opportunities and Barriers to mHealth Design for HIV/AIDS Using a Communicative Ecologies Framework (Jerry Watkins, Emma Baulch)....Pages 69-90 mHealth, Health, and Mobility: A Culture-Centered Interrogation (Mohan J. Dutta, Satveer Kaur-Gill, Naomi Tan, Chervin Lam)....Pages 91-107 Smart Health Facilitator: Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps (Huan Chen)....Pages 109-122 Afterword: Reflections on a Decade of mHealth Innovation in Asia (Arul Chib)....Pages 123-131 This open access book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and demonstrates how a research focus on diverse Asian contexts influences the success and/or failure of current mHealth initiatives. It also highlights the important roles social scientists can play in advancing theoretical approaches, as well as planning, implementing and evaluating mHealth initiatives. The book is a valuable resource for project planners, policy developers in NGOs and government institutions, as well as academics, researchers and students in the fields of public health, communications and development studies.

mHealth Innovation in Asia; mHealth Initiatives and Policy; Grassroots mHealth Projects in Asia; Practical mHealth Interventions in Asia; Structures and Infrastructures of mHealth in Asia; Mobile Health; Health and Wellbeing; Media and Communications; Development Studies on Public Health; Community Health Workers; Mobile Phones in Health