Abstract: The Beyond Zero campaign initiative complement the existing health services providers to improve access to and quality health services to a zero state of maternal and child mortality, and zero new HIV infections, these mobile clinics provide free services on prenatal, antenatal and postnatal care. However, limited resourceful information of where a mobile clinic is located inconveniences most patients.
This paper studies the existing mobile clinics and proposes a Location Based Services application to locate the beyond zero campaign mobile clinic via a SMS inquiry, scheduled activities and supplementary information as an outreach program for beyond zero campaign patients. A web based prototype application was developed using several web technologies: HTML, JavaScript, XML, PHP and MySQL.
The results obtained from the testing phase showed that 75% of the participants were satisfied with the application ease of use from its simple Short Message inquiry of the location using any kind of phone, regardless of whether the phone is a smart phone or a feature phone, timely message reply, and real time location with street name and route. 83.3% of the participants were satisfied with the structuring, the location inquiry and patient enrolment with Short message reminders of scheduled clinic appointments.
It is recommended that a pilot application should first be tested with a given sample participants especially in counties where low turnout of patients was recorded at beyond zero campaign mobile clinics. Afterwards a viable production application should be implemented to test its viability in locating the mobile clinic.
Keywords: Beyond zero campaign, Location based services, Open Location Services Platform, SMS.
Title: SMS Location Based Services: A Case of Beyond Zero Campaign Mobile Clinic
Author: Victor Muriuki, Dr. Christopher Chepken
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