Use of Mobiles for Reducing Infant Mortality by Increasing Adherence to Vaccinations in a Low Resource Setting

摘要

Infant mortality is inversely proportional to immunisation. In India, due to lack of awareness and knowledge about the benefits of immunisation, the infant mortality stands at 61%. With the need to reduce this high percentage, the use of technology has proved to be beneficial. The growing penetration of mobile technologies and the sending of alerts over mobile devices has helped extend the reach of healthcare services to resource limited settings. mHealth has numerous applications in child healthcare and one such mobile application that aims to address a long standing issue of high infant mortality rate is Child Immunisation Alert System (CIAS). This paper highlights the design and outcome of CIAS, which uses various communication modalities to send vaccine alerts to the parents for high vaccine adherence.