You’ve got a friend in me: How social networks and mobile phones facilitate healthcare access among marginalised groups in rural Thailand and Lao PDR

Marco Haenssgen, Nutcha Charoenboon and Giacomo Zanello

World Development, 2021, vol. 137, issue C

Abstract: The seeming “ubiquity” of mobile phones has spawned a wave of interventions that use mobiles as platforms for health service delivery (mHealth). Operating in more than 100 countries, mHealth interventions commonly aspire to make healthcare more inclusive and efficient. Yet, mobile phone diffusion also stimulates locally emerging forms of health-related phone use that could create new digital inequalities among marginalised groups or compete with mHealth and other technology-based development interventions.

Keywords: Marginalisation; Technology; Health behaviour; Thailand; Laos; Survey; mHealth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105156

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