title: Prioritizing integrated mHealth strategies for universal health coverage.
abstract: As countries strive toward universal health coverage, mobile wireless technologies-mHealth tools-in support of enumeration, registration, unique identification, and maintenance of health records will facilitate improved health system performance. Electronic forms and registry systems will enable routine monitoring of the coverage of essential interventions for individuals within relevant target populations. A cascading model is presented for prioritizing and operationalizing the role of integrated mHealth strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. mehlg@who.int.
authors.forename: Garrett
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mehl
authors.affiliation: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Labrique
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records; D015277:Hotlines; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012042:Registries; D019472:Universal Health Insurance / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*