TY - GEN
T1 - Role of mobile phone penetration and the health index in human development
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
AU - Afzali, Mohammad Farhad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Studies have shown that global development efforts need to address the ability of people to achieve better livelihoods using information and communication technologies. The challenge remains one of understanding what development efforts lead to better livelihoods. As the relationship between mobile phones and health remains elusive, this paper investigates health wellbeing in the light of increasing mobile phone penetration. A simple cluster analysis of the data used on mobile phone penetration and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Health index revealed five clusters. In order to understand the effects on human development, the relationship between these variables and the Human Development Index (HDI) was carried out. The contribution of this paper is in uncovering a positive significant correlation between both mobile phone penetration and the health index as well as both variables and the HDI.
AB - Studies have shown that global development efforts need to address the ability of people to achieve better livelihoods using information and communication technologies. The challenge remains one of understanding what development efforts lead to better livelihoods. As the relationship between mobile phones and health remains elusive, this paper investigates health wellbeing in the light of increasing mobile phone penetration. A simple cluster analysis of the data used on mobile phone penetration and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Health index revealed five clusters. In order to understand the effects on human development, the relationship between these variables and the Human Development Index (HDI) was carried out. The contribution of this paper is in uncovering a positive significant correlation between both mobile phone penetration and the health index as well as both variables and the HDI.
KW - Health Index (HI)
KW - Human Development Index (HDI)
KW - Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
KW - United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - AMCIS 2017 - America's Conference on Information Systems: A Tradition of Innovation
BT - AMCIS 2017 - America's Conference on Information Systems
PB - Americas Conference on Information Systems
T2 - America�s Conference on Information Systems: A Tradition of Innovation, AMCIS 2017
Y2 - 10 August 2017 through 12 August 2017
ER -