Prospects of mHealth Services in Bangladesh: Recent Evidence from Chakaria

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Fatema Khatun1,2,3, SMA Hanifi2, Mohammad Iqbal2, Sabrina Rasheed2, Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman4,2, Tanvir Ahmed2, Shahidul Hoque2, Tamanna Sharmin2, Nazib Uz Zaman Khan2, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood2, David H. Peters5, Abbas Bhuiya2
1Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare Research Centre, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
2International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
3School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
4Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
5Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States of America

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