Rural areas in South Africa often face challenges in accessing healthcare services, particularly for chronic disease management. The analysis will aggregate data from multiple studies comparing mobile health check-up interventions with standard care controls, using standardised effect size measures and accounting for potential confounders such as socioeconomic status and geographical region. Mobile health check-ups showed a statistically significant improvement in blood pressure management (p < 0. 05) compared to control groups after controlling for baseline differences. Mobile health check-up services appear effective in enhancing chronic disease management outcomes, particularly for hypertension among rural residents. Rural healthcare providers should integrate mobile health check-ups into their service delivery models as a cost-effective and accessible strategy for managing chronic diseases. Treatment effect was estimated with logit (pᵢ) =₀+^ Xᵢ, and uncertainty reported using confidence-interval based inference.
Mhlangu et al. (Thu,) studied this question.