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Thank you Drs. Agarwal and Kaysin for your thoughtful and insightful comments and for your leadership in mHealth and chronic disease management in low-resource settings. Your point about the variability of scope of practice for CHWs in different jurisdictions and the effect of this on adaptability to other locations is well-taken. In areas in which CHWs are not allowed to adjust medications, perhaps other non-physician he...
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The use of mobile decision support tools by community health workers (CHWs) has great potential in addressing the epidemic of chronic and noncommunicable diseases. Mobile health tools have been shown, through local projects, to be a viable strategy in augmenting healthcare delivery systems in low and middle-income countries. While much of the extant literature and studies are focused on diagnosis and counselling for beh...
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