Mobile Phones and Global Health Link Drop

Posted by: Man Health  :  Category: Acne, Breast Cancer, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, Dental Care, Diabetes, Heart Disease, News, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Quitting Smoking, Sexual Health, Skin Cancer, Yeast Infection

Over the last year there I have noticed a tremendous up-tick in mobile phones for health/global health stories. The innovation in this area has been worldwide and the sense I get is that use outside the US and in developing countries is far more creative and wide ranging (I haven’t done the research, but this is probably a case where a country like the US will be taking lessons from less developed regions or the “South” as people love to say). We did a previous link drop on SMS/Text Messaging for Global Health that you should check out. Below I begin with two links about the power of mobile phones in general followed by recent links in a plethora of areas from countries around the world. Enjoy:

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