Abstract

The rapid expansion of mobile networks has revolutionized communications worldwide, yet mobile telephony is also having significant effects across a range of issues including education, politics, entertainment, and finance (Steinhubl, Muse and Topol, 2015). This chapter explores one of these effects: the use of mobile technologies in health. Mobility is a fundamentally geographic concept, and thus mobile health (mHealth) is an area that health geographers have and continue to examine.