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Rafael Anta, Shireen El-Wahab, and Antonino Giuffrida
With the suppt f theKe Fund f Technnd Inntin
Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank
INNOVATIONNOTE
February 2009
The authors of this Innovation Note are Rafael Anta, Shireen El-Wahab, and Antonino Giuffrida. Rafael Anta is a seniorICT specialist, and Shireen El-Wahab is a research fellow, both at the IDB Science and Technology Division of the VicePresidency of Sectors and Knowledge. Antonino Giuffrida is a health specialist who works at the IDB Social Protectionand Health Division, from the Brazil office.The authors are grateful to Luis Barcia, Patricia Mechael, Lisa Waits, and Walter Curioso for their contributions.This Innovation Note is a product from a project supported by the Knowledge Partnership Korean Fund for Technologyand Innovation.This note may be freely reproduced provided credit is given to the Science and Technology Division and the IDB.The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views and policy of the IDB.This is the final version of the mobile health working paper. All earlier versions should be disregarded.The team welcomes your comments on this paper. For further information on mobile health or other mobile servicesactivities and events supported by the IDB, please e-mail the mobile services team at
mbie@idb.
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More than 355million peopleacross LatinAmerica and theCaribbean owna mobile phone
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Gabi is a teenager living in Benito Juarez. She doesn’t know whom to ask forinformation on sexually transmitted diseases.
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Lewis is an ambulance nurse in Nassau, and he’s just picked up twocasualties from a car accident. On the way to the hospital he has no systematic way ofcommunicating important details of his casualties to the staff that will meet them onarrival.
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Larissa lives in Tegucigalpa and hasn’t been feeling at all well. She finallydecides to make the trip to the emergency room, but she has to wait over two hours tosee the doctor. Larissa didn’t know that she would only have to wait 40 minutes at theprimary care unit.
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Andrea lives in the northern area of Piura and has to take a trip into the city inorder to get advice and checkups on her pregnancy. Andrea already missed severalappointments last trimester.
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Lucas lives in Cuiaba and is a keen footballer. He recently had surgery on hisknee and is supposed to go to the doctor to get his sutures checked, but the clinic isabout 50 kilometers from his home.
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Felipe is 65 years old and lives north of Potosí. Felipe often makes a long andcostly journey traveling to his doctor, just to get advice on how to control his bloodsugar levels and medication.Gabi, Lewis, Larissa, Andrea, Lucas, and Felipe are 6 of the 355 million people acrossLatin America and the Caribbean who own a mobile phone.
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