Adoption of mHealth Technologies by Community Health Workers to Improve the Use of Maternal Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Protocol for a Mixed Method Systematic Review

Chiyembekezo Kachimanga   ^{1, 2} , MBBS, MPhil ;   Titus H Divala   ³ , PhD ;   Johannes C F Ket   ¹ ;   Alexandra V Kulinkina   ^{2, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Haules R Zaniku   ^{3, 6} , BSc ;   Joia Murkherjee   ⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Daniel Palazuelos   ⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde   ^{8, 9} , MD, PhD ;   Thomas van den Akker   ¹ , PhD

¹ Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

² Clinical Department, Partners In Health Malawi, Neno, Malawi

³ School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

⁴ Swiss Center for International Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

⁵ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁶ Neno District Hospital, Ministry of Health, Neno, Malawi

⁷ Community Health Department, Partners In Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ Women's College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada