![]() ![]() The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined mHealth as ‘Medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants, and other wireless devices’ ( Citation3). This review aims to summarise and assess the evidence of impacts that mobile technologies have had on improving health in countries categorised by the World Bank as low- and middle-income (LMICs) ( Citation2), through mHealth (mobile health) interventions. ![]() The mHealth community believes that this extends to healthcare. Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute, has suggested that ‘Mobile phones and wireless internet end isolation, and will therefore prove to be the most transformative technology of economic development of our time’ ( Citation1).
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