The Necessity of Mobile Phone Technologies for Public Health Surveillance in Benin

Table 1

(a) Comparison and recapitulation of information collected from respondents. (b) Compassion and recapitulation of information collected from respondents.

(a)

Variable	Level	Number	Proportion (%)	value
Phone calls	Urban	94	95.92	0.5677
	Rural	32	100
SMS	Urban	58	59.18	0.9316
	Rural	18	56.25
Digital forms	Urban	50	51.02	0.9176
	Rural	16	50.00
Phone calls	Public	68	94.44	0.1893
	Health professionals	58	100
SMS	Public	28	38.89	0.014
	Health professionals	36	62.07
Digital forms	Public	22	30.55	0.007
	Health professionals	32	55.17
Common communication methods	SMS	102	78.46
	Calls	130	100.00
	Internet-apps	68	52.31
Medical use of cell phone	Appointment	65	50.00
	Emergency	15	11.54
	Follow-up	12	9.23
	Complaints	25	19.23
	Cases	65	50.00
	Vaccination	6	4.62
	Treatments	22	16.92

(b)

Variable	Level	Number	Per cent (%)
Current disease reporting means	TV	92	70.77
	Newspaper	93	71.54
	Radio	55	42.31
	Colleagues	24	18.46
	Internet	78	60.00
	Relatives	22	16.92
	Social media	56	43.08
	Pub-shouter	2	1.54
Reportable issues using cell phone	Outbreak	123	94.62
	Cases	113	86.92
	Pregnancy	65	50.00
	Birth	87	66.92
	ARV-Remd	55	42.31
	Drug-Remd	12	9.23
	Appointment	112	86.15
	Diagnoses	74	56.92
	Treatment	49	37.69
	Vaccination	62	47.69
	Emergency	90	69.23
	Controls	33	25.38
	Drug purchase	13	10.00
	Prophylaxis	19	14.62