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The Need for Mobile Apps for Maternal and Child Health Care in Center and East Europe

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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2019)

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Mobile health services are booming in the field of maternal and child health in Europe, due to extensions in the area of electronic health and the introduction of the European Policies to increase fertility rate. There are many applications (apps) related to mother and child health in computer stores, but the exact number of mobile apps, their download volume, and the functionality of these applications are not known. the reason of this research was to investigate on the use of mobile health apps (mHealth) in Android and IOS application stores and to describe the key features of the most popular applications that provide information on maternal health and baby. The researchers searched the most popular Android app stores and the iTunes App Store in Center and East Europe. All applications related to family planning (contraception and pregnancy preparedness), pregnancy and perinatal care, neonatal care and health, as well as the development of children under six, were included in the initial analysis. Mobile maternal and child health applications with prominent features in product marketing, children’s songs, animation, and games were excluded from the study.

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The work was supported by the SPEV project “Smart Solutions in Ubiquitous Computing Environments”, 2019, University of Hradec Kralove, FIM, Czech Republic.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Management, Center for Basic and Applied Research, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 500 03, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Sebastien Mambou, Ondrej Krejcar, Ali Selamat & Kamil Kuca

  2. Department of Economy, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 500 03, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Petra Maresova

  3. Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Ali Selamat

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Mambou, S., Krejcar, O., Maresova, P., Selamat, A., Kuca, K. (2019). The Need for Mobile Apps for Maternal and Child Health Care in Center and East Europe. In: Awan, I., Younas, M., Ünal, P., Aleksy, M. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11673. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27192-3_8

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