Technologies that empower women for better access to healthcare in India - A scoping review.

IF 2.3 3区 医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Global Public Health Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-19 DOI:10.1080/17441692.2024.2318240
Manikandan Srinivasan, Geethu Mathew, Namrata Mathew, Mohan Kumar, Nidhi Goyal, Mohan S Kamath
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Women from low- and middle-income countries face challenges in accessing and utilising quality healthcare. Technologies can aid in overcoming these challenges and the present scoping review is aimed at summarising the range of technologies used by women and assessing their role in enabling Indian women to learn about and access healthcare services. We conducted a comprehensive search from the date of inception of database till 2022 in PubMed and Google Scholar. Data was extracted from 43 studies and were thematically analysed. The range of technologies used by Indian women included integrated voice response system, short message services, audio-visual aids, telephone calls and mobile applications operated by health workers. Majority of the studies were community-based (79.1%), from five states (60.5%), done in rural settings (58.1%) and with interventional design (48.8%). Maternal and child health has been the major focus of studies, with lesser representation in domains of non-communicable and communicable diseases. The review also summarised barriers related to using technology - from health system and participant perspective. Technology-based interventions are enabling women to improve awareness about and accessibility to healthcare in India. Imparting digital literacy and scaling up technology use are potential solutions to scale-up healthcare access among women in India.

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增强印度妇女获得更好医疗服务能力的技术--范围界定审查。
中低收入国家的妇女在获取和利用优质医疗保健服务方面面临着挑战。本范围综述旨在总结妇女使用的各种技术,并评估这些技术在帮助印度妇女了解和获得医疗保健服务方面所起的作用。我们在 PubMed 和 Google Scholar 上进行了全面搜索,搜索时间从数据库建立之日起至 2022 年。我们从 43 项研究中提取了数据并进行了专题分析。印度妇女使用的技术包括综合语音应答系统、短信服务、视听辅助工具、电话以及由卫生工作者操作的移动应用程序。大多数研究以社区为基础(79.1%),来自五个邦(60.5%),在农村环境中进行(58.1%),采用干预设计(48.8%)。母婴健康是研究的主要重点,非传染性疾病和传染性疾病领域的研究较少。综述还从卫生系统和参与者的角度总结了与使用技术有关的障碍。基于技术的干预措施使印度妇女能够更好地了解和获得医疗保健服务。传授数字知识和扩大技术使用范围是扩大印度妇女获得医疗保健的潜在解决方案。
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Global Public Health
Global Public Health PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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期刊介绍: Global Public Health is an essential peer-reviewed journal that energetically engages with key public health issues that have come to the fore in the global environment — mounting inequalities between rich and poor; the globalization of trade; new patterns of travel and migration; epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the increase in chronic illnesses; escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world; and the growing range and scale of conflict situations, terrorist threats, environmental pressures, natural and human-made disasters.
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