What is Djantoli?
Often we talk about a
good healthcare system Now thanks to technology, collecting
in African countries, reliable data becomes easier and we
about no longer have an excuse for lack of
eradicating child accurate data. Many private ventures
mortality and maternal have stopped relying on the government
death. We also talk and taken matters into their own hands
about improving to make a change in this area, a great
prevention of various example of such pioneers is PESINET,
chronic diseases but we now known as DJANTOLI in Mali.
all forget something:
Djantoli helps mothers watch over the
How can we health of their children. Through home-
do all of this without based monitoring, health insurance and
Data? How can we solve education, diseases are prevented from
a problem you can’t getting worse, so that each child gets
quantify? an equal chance at growing up healthy.
Therefore the
importance of a reliable
h
and timely data
Data collection as a tool for healthcare
DJANTOLI does not only provide
This also helps to reduce child mortality.
health insurance, prevention and
education but Djantoli’s agents More and more organizations which collect data with the help
also do home visits and in of technology are starting to exist and this will help to change
addition to taking care of people, the health outcome of Africa and will also help policymakers to
they collect simple health data analyze and make better decisions.
such as weight, height, fever,
stools, etc
YOU TOO should be involved….If you are young, find out about
an organization who is collecting health data near you and
All data collected is stored on a
volunteer.
java applet on the agent’s mobile
phones and transferred to the
doctor via mobile technology.
This helps them to also find
specific health solutions and
know which health problems are
still remaining so they can give
the right intervention to the right
problems.
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