Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research
Pakistan faces significant challenges in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals for maternal and child health by the 2030 target. Separate vertical programmes, governance challenges due to paper-based systems, and limited availability of data contribute to the health system’s suboptimal functi...
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Pakistan faces significant challenges in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals for maternal and child health by the 2030 target. Separate vertical programmes, governance challenges due to paper-based systems, and limited availability of data contribute to the health system’s suboptimal functioning. An innovative mHealth tool, Hayat, was introduced in remote areas of Pakistan to digitalise record-keeping by frontline workers, provide evidence-based awareness content for dissemination, and track performance through transparency enhanced by geographical information system tracking. There has been a limited translation of mHealth evidence into policy change globally. Hayat is one of the few donor-funded programmes, and strengthens the health system in Pakistan. It secured matching funding from the government to sustain operations and for scale-up. The current paper was planned to describe the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that led to the intervention’s adoption by the government, including the technological and programmatic approaches, challenges and mitigation strategies,
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| spelling | doaj-art-325a4b43510d498f917bc7957862b4df2025-08-20T03:40:06ZengPakistan Medical AssociationJournal of the Pakistan Medical Association0030-99822025-01-01750210.47391/JPMA.10624Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation researchSaleem Sayani0Momina Muzammil1Malika Saba2Fayaz Roomi3Mirajuddin Miraj4Zeenat Sulaiman5Aga Khan Development Network Digital Health Resource Centre, Karachi, Pakistan.Aga Khan Development Network Digital Health Resource Centre, Karachi, Pakistan.Department of Health, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.Department of Health, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.Aga Khan Health Services, Chitral, Pakistan.Aga Khan Health Service, East Africa. Pakistan faces significant challenges in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals for maternal and child health by the 2030 target. Separate vertical programmes, governance challenges due to paper-based systems, and limited availability of data contribute to the health system’s suboptimal functioning. An innovative mHealth tool, Hayat, was introduced in remote areas of Pakistan to digitalise record-keeping by frontline workers, provide evidence-based awareness content for dissemination, and track performance through transparency enhanced by geographical information system tracking. There has been a limited translation of mHealth evidence into policy change globally. Hayat is one of the few donor-funded programmes, and strengthens the health system in Pakistan. It secured matching funding from the government to sustain operations and for scale-up. The current paper was planned to describe the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that led to the intervention’s adoption by the government, including the technological and programmatic approaches, challenges and mitigation strategies, ---Continue https://jpma.org.pk/index.php/public_html/article/view/10624Child HealthInformation SystemsSustainable DevelopmentTelemedicineHealth policyHealth system |
| spellingShingle | Saleem Sayani Momina Muzammil Malika Saba Fayaz Roomi Mirajuddin Miraj Zeenat Sulaiman Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Child Health Information Systems Sustainable Development Telemedicine Health policy Health system |
| title | Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research |
| title_full | Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research |
| title_fullStr | Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research |
| title_short | Sustainability of a digital health intervention within Pakistan’s remote health system: learning from implementation research |
| title_sort | sustainability of a digital health intervention within pakistan s remote health system learning from implementation research |
| topic | Child Health Information Systems Sustainable Development Telemedicine Health policy Health system |
| url | https://jpma.org.pk/index.php/public_html/article/view/10624 |
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