E-Health Counselor (EHC), a Smartphone Application to Fight Cervical Cancer

Kiki Awalul Chasanah

2017

Abstract

Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly diseases for women. Based on data from the Health Ministry, cervical cancer is the highest disease among developing countries and the fifth in the world. In Indonesia, cervical cancer is the second of the ten most prevalent cancers. One of the causes of the high incidence of such cancer is the lack of knowledge about it. This writing aims to show how knowledge can be so important to increase degree of health and EHC is such a media can be used to access knowledge simply in digital era. This research focuses on literature review. EHC is a mobile phone application that focuses on cervical cancer disease and is available for all society, especially for women. EHC includes the definition and means of prevention of cervical cancer and is also integrated to health workers and health facilities to facilitate the public in enhancing their own health. EHC provides private counsellors who connect members of the public with an expert and the goal is that people know more about cervical cancer and how it can be eliminated. So, result is may EHC can facilitate society to prevent cervical cancer by increasing knowledge and having private councellor.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chasanah K. (2017). E-Health Counselor (EHC), a Smartphone Application to Fight Cervical Cancer.In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA, ISBN 978-989-758-335-3, pages 88-91. DOI: 10.5220/0007024300880091

in Bibtex Style

@conference{inahea17,
author={Kiki Awalul Chasanah},
title={E-Health Counselor (EHC), a Smartphone Application to Fight Cervical Cancer},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,},
year={2017},
pages={88-91},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007024300880091},
isbn={978-989-758-335-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Health Economics Association - Volume 1: INAHEA,
TI - E-Health Counselor (EHC), a Smartphone Application to Fight Cervical Cancer
SN - 978-989-758-335-3
AU - Chasanah K.
PY - 2017
SP - 88
EP - 91
DO - 10.5220/0007024300880091