mSanté dans les Suds : analyse sociotechnique de dispositifs de santé par téléphone portable - Al Dahdah, Marine
In 2014, almost seven billion people were mobile phone users, thus propelling mobile phone ahead of all ICTs. From mobile Personal Health Record to confidential clinical data send by SMS, those devices are increasingly used to provide “better" services with less financial and human resources and more implication of health consumers. Among ICTs for health, Internet has been extensively studied whereas the use of mobile technologies for health called mhealth or mobile Health has been less documented so far. This article offers an overview of this new field through the study of a particular project deployed in West Africa for pregnant women. We propose to focus more specifically on the perceptions of the end-users - health professionals and pregnant women- of this technology as an expression of its effects.
Keywords: conferencePaper; TIC; mHealth; mobile health; téléphone portable