Previous Related Work

The REIMAGINE project is borne out of our previous work that has documented CHWs’ personal phone use to support their work: a phenomenon we have called ‘informal mhealth.’ This work has sought to understand the extent to which CHWs are using personal devices in the context of their work and the benefits and costs/challenges associated with doing so.

Past publications on this topic include:

Informal Health at scale in Africa: Opportunities and challenges. 2021. World Development 140: 105257.

Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi. 2017. Health Policy & Planning 32(1): 34-42.

Informal m-health: How are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa? 2015. Social Science and Medicine 142: 90-99.