Informal m-health: How are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa?
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Mobile phones; Therapeutic citizenship; Adolescent health; Digital capital; m-health; Ghana; Malawi; South Africa;All these keywords.
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