According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mHealth can be defined as the medical and public health practices reinforced by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices. It is well-known that mobile phones have been used extensively in health information and service. Similarly, mHealth can be an efficient and cost-saving solution for several health system challenges such as disease surveillance, supply chain coordination, genuineness verification of purchased drugs, mobile telemedicine, health surveys, and increasing awareness of healthier behaviors.
However, high costs, poor signal coverage, slow demand generation, inadequate human resources, existing social inequities, and privacy issues are the current restraints to mHealth. Therefore, there is need of greater awareness of local…
