Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions

Download or read book Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions written by Pradeep Kumar Ray and published by Institution of Engineering and Technology. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book explores the use of mobile technologies such as phones, drones, robots, apps, and wearable monitoring devices for improving access to healthcare for socially disadvantaged populations in remote, rural or developing regions. This book brings together examples of large scale, international projects from developing regions of China and Belt and Road countries from researchers in Australia, Bangladesh, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Spain, Thailand and China. The chapters discuss the challenges presented to those seeking to deploy emerging mobile technologies (e.g., smartphones, IoT, drones, robots etc.) for healthcare (mHealth) in developing countries and discuss the solutions undertaken in these case study projects.