Toll-free hotline and mobile messaging for a poor area (on awareness and use of services, and care-seeking behaviour) in Malawi (Higgins-Steele et al., 2015)

ID:

RMNCH380

Full title:

Improving care-seeking for facility-based health services in a rural, resource-limited setting: Effects and potential of an mHealth project

Publication date:

01 February 2015

Maps:

Social, Behavioural and Community Engagement Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Health

Social, Behavioural and Community Engagement Interventions for Maternal Health

Social, Behavioural and Community Engagement Interventions for Child Health

Social, Behavioural and Community Engagement Interventions for Newborn Health

Study design:

Difference-in-Differences (DID)

Regions:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Countries:

Population:

Care during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth

Interventions:

Social media and m-health

Outcomes:

Knowledge and attitudes of individuals and households

Routine care-seeking behaviour

Care-seeking for complications/illness

Link:

http://3ieimpact.org/en/evidence/impact-evaluations/details/5759/