HealthLine: Speech-based access to health information by low-literate users
Jahanzeb Sherwani, Naureen Ali, Sarwat Mirza, Al Riyami Fatma, Yousuf Memon, Mehtab S. Karim, Rahul Tongia, Roni Rosenfeld · 2007
Health information access by low-literate community health workers is a pressing need of community health programs across the developing world. We present results from a needs assessment we conducted to understand the health information access practices and needs of various types of health workers in Pakistan. We also present a prototype for speech-based health information access, as well as discuss our experiences from a pilot study involving its use by community health workers in a rural health center.