Beyond Zero Campaign Mobile Clinic Locator
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Date
2016Author
Victor Mugambi Muriuki, Victor Mugambi Muriuki
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ABSTRACT
The Beyond Zero campaign initiated by the First Lady, Margaret Kenyatta, intends to
complement existing initiatives to improve access and quality of 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. Limited resourceful information of where a
mobile clinic is inconveniences most patients. This research paper studies the existing mobile
clinics and as an outcome develops a web based application based on Location Based Services
technology to locate the beyond zero campaign mobile clinic, quick access options, scheduled
activities and supplementary information as an outreach program on health for beyond zero
campaign patients. A web based prototype application was developed using several web
technologies (HTML, Javascript, XML, PHP & MySQL). Using a simple SMS query “location”
a patient or enrolled patient at the clinic can get the location of the mobile clinic and scheduled
activities. Questionnaire survey was done with 12 participants that were used to represent the
population on test and evaluation. All the components of the model were implemented and tested.
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 enrollment with Short message
reminders of scheduled clinic appointments. It is recommended that a pilot application of the
prototype should first be developed 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.
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University Of Nairobi
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