The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mHealth as the use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives. Since mHealth is most suitably understood as a tool for strengthening health systems and promoting healthy behaviors, the word “support” in this definition is a key term (World Health Organization, 2011).

mHealth is part of the larger field of eHealth. It refers to using mobile’s phone functions, such as voice, SMS, GPS, Bluetooth and mobile telecommunications systems, to achieve health-related outcomes (World Health Organization, 2011).

Data shows that starting with 2014, almost half of the global population was using some form of mobile communications (World Health Organization, 2015), and by 2025 is forecasted to have over 7 billion smartphone users in the world (Bankmycell, 2021).

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