Scaling up a health and nutrition hotline in Malawi: the benefits of multisectoral collaboration

Carla Blauvelt; Melissa West; Luciana Maxim; Alinafe Kasiya; Isaac Dambula; Upile Kachila; Hope Ngwira; Corinne E Armstrong

doi:10.1136/bmj.k4590

Scaling up a health and nutrition hotline in Malawi: the benefits of multisectoral collaboration

BMJ. 2018 Dec 7:363:k4590. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4590.

Authors

Carla Blauvelt¹, Melissa West², Luciana Maxim³, Alinafe Kasiya³, Isaac Dambula⁴, Upile Kachila^{3

4}, Hope Ngwira³, Corinne E Armstrong⁵

Affiliations

¹ VillageReach, Lilongwe, Malawi carla.blauvelt@villagereach.org.
² VillageReach, Seattle, USA.
³ VillageReach, Lilongwe, Malawi.
⁴ Government of Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi.
⁵ London, UK.

Abstract

Carla Blauvelt and colleagues describe a multisectoral collaboration that enabled the scale up of a health advice telephone service and its transition to government in Malawi

MeSH terms

Cell Phone
Cooperative Behavior
Government
Health Promotion / methods*
Health Services Accessibility
Hotlines*
Humans
Malawi
Nutrition Disorders / prevention & control*
Public-Private Sector Partnerships
Telemedicine / methods*