M-technology for health care: an accomplishment or a disappointment: case studies from nadia and birbhum district

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Sharmistha Bhattacharjee

Over decades, m-technology studies have assumed global attention especially among the developing nations like India. In rural India, the usage of m-technology is a question mark for many. Digital divide within the rural community has intensified because of high literacy rate and scare and fear to use m-technology. Scholars understanding technologies for people and health care opined that studies on health care and m-technology mostly focus on primary and secondary healthcare facilities in the village at various levels. Telemedicine is being used as shortcut to bring rural and remote areas in the mainstream of healthcare delivery (Sharma, 2004). They are also of an opinion that a lot of software’s are designed keeping in view the Indian condition. This paper attempts to elaborate on the usage of m-m-technology as a medium of a health care in the rural areas of Nadia and Birbhum district, West Bengal and whether the young population has a reach to mhealth and other technological endeavours in the rural set up.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.11217.1936
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