MOBILE SAKHI PROJECT CommCare for Improving Maternal & Child Health in Rural Maharashtra
MOBILE SAKHI PROJECT CommCare for Improving Maternal & Child Health in Rural Maharashtra
8 PagesMOBILE SAKHI PROJECT CommCare for Improving Maternal & Child Health in Rural Maharashtra CASE STUDY OVERVIEW In 2013, Lata Medical Research Foundation (LMRF) partnered with Dimagi to assess CommCare’s feasibility for monitoring antenatal, natal, and post-natal care, as well as infant nutrition, in rural India. LMRF adopted CommCare to help accredited social health activists (ASHAs) track pregnant women and improve their health-seeking behavior and maternal & child health outcomes by familiarizing them and their families with available public health programs. For this pilot, ten ASHAs were recruited as data collectors at Takalghat Primary Healthcare Centre in Nagpur district. These ASHAs were provided with GPRS-enabled Nokia C2-01 Java phones to collect data from a total of 80 pregna
