DigI:DigI-Health Intervention 10Aug2017

DigI - Health interventions Thu, Aug 10, 2017 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM CEST = Agenda =


 * Specific interventions planned
 * Which villages to start with (decision on 3 or 4 villages)​
 * use of general health information, like GHMP videos
 * Master and PhD-topics for SDG 3 and Digital Global Health, see presentation

Measures for digital uptake

 * KPI (key performance indicators) for digital uptake
 * foster the take-up of digital information
 * introducing the tablet, measuring the use and uptake
 * survey on having taken up the knowledge
 * comments, feedback, suggestions
 * technology acceptance: tablet useful,
 * social acceptance: structure, communication amongst people
 * main function of digital devices: increase communications in health, and thus knowledge uptake
 * from health information towards digital society
 * new technologies for agriculture

How to reach the people on the ground
Aim: Reaching the majority of people
 * first ground work (connectivity mobile phone operators)
 * where to place the equipment: close to market place (once to twice a week) versus equipment close to governmental offices
 * issues of security
 * connecting to regular(?) village meetings
 * use radio messages (2-3 times per week, after some months), newspaper
 * use different places, e.g. churches for health education
 * hospitals with TV set
 * which other content could foster the take-up of health messages
 * Tablet without a person will not work, people struggling to open a device (easy to do at hospital during work hour, complicate for placing the tablet at the market place)
 * who can take care of the equipment (tablet), what are the incentives for providing access, volunteers per tablet
 * security for devices

Health message content
Aspects to be considered for digital content
 * divide between official information, and open information from the Internet
 * Regarding content: there are "health" games out, like the Vicious Worm .app
 * other suggested topics, games from user communities
 * is Wikipedia helpful, or too complex: Example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuberculosis_video.webm
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HIV_%26_AIDS.webm

Economics:
 * what is what we want to achieve, and?
 * what are the costs involved?

Way ahead

 * Suggestion from the TZ team (IT: Felix, Human health: Bernard & Elibariki, OneHealth: Helena)
 * Dedicated visit to the villages
 * Focus in Phase A (3 villages): Selela (Anthrax, TBc, HIV), Izazi, Mtera (Cystocercosis, TBc, HIV)
 * Aligned with One Health approach, having a combined approach
 * for each disease, get a catalogue of a) official information, b) other information/games, ...
 * Comment by Josef: focus on Transformation towards Digital Societies
 * Morogoro report to be presented during Inception Meeting