Design of Mobile Application for Community Health Workers: A Case Study in Rwanda

Design of Mobile Application for Community Health Workers: A Case Study in Rwanda

Health Systems

Mobile application

community health workers

User-Centered Design

Community health workers (CHWs) are the basis of public health services that aim to connect the gap between public health and the human service system. This gap can be completely bridged by navigating the health and human service systems and educating communities on disease prevention. Unfortunately, the way of sharing, accessing information, and delivering health services is still non-digitalized in Rwanda. Community Health workers use a manual system in their daily activities, which is prone to error and falsification. Moreover, these people selected to perform these activities often do not have adequate knowledge about diseases and health systems since they are not professional health workers. To address the above problem, we designed a prototype mobile application to enable these workers to automatically submit reports, transfer knowledge, share information, and receive training from professionals.  The design process followed a User-Centered Design approach to meet the users’ requirements. The evaluation of the design showed that 91.7% of the CHWs agreed with the designed application prototype.  This finding shows that CHWs has an interest in using the mobile application in their work. Using the mobile application will help CHWs to improve data collection, the reporting process, and ease of receiving training.

Emmanuel, Gahizi

Emanuel, Andi Wahju Rahardjo

Setyohadi, Djoko Budiyanto

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 14 No. 11 (2020); pp. 271-279

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2020-07-10

Copyright (c) 2020 Gahizi Emmanuel, Andi Wahju Rahardjo Emanuel, Djoko Budiyanto Setyohadi

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