Mobile Health in the Developing World: Needs, Facts, and Challenges

The developing countries are struggling to provide adequate health care to the needy people, especially in the rural areas. Availability of accessible and quality health-care services has been the key challenges in the developing world. mHealth technology is considered to be the fastest-growing phenomena in health care and represents anew growing area within the Arab world (Pillai, 2012). Eighty percent of rural areas in the developing world have access to the mobile networks (Kaplan, 2006; Donner, 2008; Jeannine, 2011). Although mHealth is still in its early stages of development, it has already started to transform health-care delivery due mainly to the success of mHealth applications and programs.