Dasuki, S. and Zamani, E. orcid.org/0000-0003-3110-7495 (2019) Assessing mobile phone use by pregnant women in Nigeria: a capability perspective. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 85 (5). e12092. ISSN 1681-4835
Abstract
This paper explores the use of mobile phones to access maternal health care in sub‐Saharan Africa and whether it enhances capability and human development. Analysing focus groups and interviews on mobile phone uses by pregnant women in Nigeria based on the Technology Augmented Capability Approach, we show that the mobile phone as a technical object facilitates three broad capabilities for pregnant women, namely, (a) enhances their voice and choice to push for health care quality, (b) enhances their access to emergency services while maintaining entrepreneurial activities, and (c) enhances their health literacy and social connectedness. However, personal, social, and environmental factors influence the conversion of the use of the mobile phone into capabilities by the pregnant women.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
Keywords: | capability approach; case study; mobile phones; pregnant women |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2019 09:17 |
Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2021 11:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/isd2.12092 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:144072 |
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