Has There Been Resistance to Mobile Health Technology? (1:04)
Mobile health technology is still being tried in many parts of the world, but there have been shifts as education improves and belief systems are modified by modern medicine. This form of health communication is the public health systems of tomorrow.
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So these are things that are still being tried I think we're still in that storming phase where we have the struggle between traditional providers and the formal health care for the past decade there have been global movement to exclude that segment of the care ecosystem from being part of the solution to maternal and [UNKNOWN] health but the traditional providers, but I think what we're realizing now is they are deeply ingrained not just in the communities but it's part of the entire explanatory mechanism for health and well being that some of these communities experience.
So we will see shifts as education improves, as some of these belief systems are modified and eroded by modern medicine, but I think they, fundamentally are part of the character of a lot of these cultures, and we have to find ways to work together with them to be part of the solution.
Alain Labrique, MD, of the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program of the Department of International Health, explains what mHealth technology is and how smartphones can be used to make healthcare more affordable and effective.
