Healthcare workers’ perspectives on the availability and use of mobile health technologies for disease diagnosis and treatment support in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Ernest Osei; Felix Apiribu; Jonathan Kissi; Lydia Sarpomaa Asante; Sabina Ampon-Wireko; Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0294802

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Healthcare workers’ perspectives on the availability and use of mobile health technologies for disease diagnosis and treatment support in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Ernest Osei,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Allied Sciences, Catholic University of Ghana, Sunyani, Ghana, Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Felix Apiribu ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fapiribu@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4534-2568

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Jonathan Kissi,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
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Lydia Sarpomaa Asante,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Allied Sciences, Catholic University of Ghana, Sunyani, Ghana
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Sabina Ampon-Wireko,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Allied Sciences, Catholic University of Ghana, Sunyani, Ghana
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Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, School of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Healthcare workers’ perspectives on the availability and use of mobile health technologies for disease diagnosis and treatment support in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Ernest Osei,
Felix Apiribu,
Jonathan Kissi,
Lydia Sarpomaa Asante,
Sabina Ampon-Wireko,
Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson

Published: April 16, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294802

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