Zakar, Rubeena; Zakria Zakar, Muhammad; Qureshi, Shazia; Fischer, Florian: Harnessing information technology to improve women’s health information: evidence from Pakistan. In: BMC Women's Health. Jg.14 H. 1. 2014
Inhalt
- Women, ICTs and empowerment
- Methods
- Phase I: Establishment of the Information and Communication Center (ICC)
- Objectives of ICC
- Process of ICC
- Structure of the ICC
- Philosophy and functional parameters of the ICC
- Data collection
- Phase II: Evaluation of the functioning of the Information and Communication Center (ICC)
- Results
- Functioning of the ICC in the local context
- Connecting women with various information providing agencies
- Creating sense of empowerment among the women
- Cross-verification of medical information
- Seeking information on non-health-related matters
- Evaluation of the functioning of the ICC
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Competing interests
- Authors’ contributions
- Acknowledgements
- Author details
- References