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Malnutrition is disproportionately prevalent in poor, rural regions and developing countries. Nutrition efforts are often coordinated via large, integrated paper-based systems, and often lack real-time data.
Mobile technology can overcome these problems and support these nutrition programs, such as Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP), Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), and Positive Deviance/Hearth (PD/H).
CommCare tracks 10% of malnourished children in India, and 1 in 50 malnourished children in world. Platform helps programs diagnose problems 41% faster than paper tools, so community health workers spend more time registering new patients and administering better care to the ones they have.
Case management and registration enables patients to be easily tracked across multiple visits, facilitating a continuum of personalized care.
Complex anthropometric calculations (e.g. weight-for-age tables) automatically simplify community health workers’ workflows based on the data collected.
Mobile apps support real-time data collection both online and offline, enabling programs to provide immediate feedback based on the data collected.
Case sharing capabilities enable multiple CMAM sites to track specific children through to completion of nutritional rehabilitation programs.
Data validations and display conditions, or skip logic, both reduce time spent and increase the accuracy and completeness of data collection at the point of entry.
Multimedia-enabled behavior change messaging engage patients with positive health practices and notifies them of the availability of local nutritional programs.
Educators calculate MUAC to identify children with Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition, offering support & counseling.
Health workers use CommCare during GMP sessions in Cabo Delgado, a province with one of the highest malnutrition rates in Mozambique.
Community health workers use CommCare to track the nutritional status of children with cleft lip and palates in Assam ahead of their surgeries.
Educators calculate MUAC to identify children with Severe and Moderate Acute Malnutrition, offering support & counseling.
RMF implemented CommCare to assist Community Nutrition Educators (CNEs) in identifying children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) through measuring MUAC. In addition to tracking MUAC over time, the application supports counseling to families of malnourished children and refers these children to government treatment facilities for rehabilitation in villages of Madhya Pradesh. Their work was previously recorded in paper format and implementation of mobile data collection has reduced the latency period from 45 days to eight hours.
Health workers use CommCare during GMP sessions in Cabo Delgado, a province with one of the highest malnutrition rates in Mozambique.
Food for the Hungry implemented CommCare to improve surveillance and counseling during GMP sessions in northern Cabo Delgado, a province with one of the highest malnutrition rates in Mozambique. The CommCare application calculates and records children’s weight-for-age Z scores and MUAC.
Community health workers use CommCare to track the nutritional status of children with cleft lip and palates in Assam ahead of their surgeries.
Operation Smile implemented a CommCare application to track the nutritional status of children with cleft lip and palates in Assam. The application tracks the children’s progress in becoming sufficiently nourished to undergo cleft palate surgery.
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Updates and advice from our world-class partners and Global Services team
Dimagi CEO Jonathan Jackson presents the largest e-nutrition program in the world, ICDS-CAS, at a Government of India Seminar.
Grassroots NGO, Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti, uses CommCare to streamline its workers’ adherence to the CMAM model to reduce malnutrition in India.
An NGO in Khandwa and the Real Medicine Foundation trains 60 community nutrition educators to fight malnutrition in five districts.
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