Investigating mHealth Education and Training for the Health-Care Sector

Abstract

This chapter commences with a discussion on mobile health (mHealth) education/training and use, then on the notion of distributed instructional training strategies, followed by a section on instructional preferences, namely, problem-based learning (PBL). Next, there are sections on the key advantages for instructional mHealth programs for medical trainingenvironments, instructional theories, and key mHealth education/training dif€culties. Three case studies are provided to show how the rural areas of the developing world are already adopting mHealth training programs. We end this chapter with mHealth future directions.

Keywords: mHealth Education, mHealth programs, Training strategies, Instructional theories