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Published on in Vol 27 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/68412, first published .
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Health Care Workers’ Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Digital Health Technology Use to Support Symptomatic Cancer Diagnosis in Southern Africa: Qualitative Study

Health Care Workers’ Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Digital Health Technology Use to Support Symptomatic Cancer Diagnosis in Southern Africa: Qualitative Study

Kirsten D Arendse   1 , MBChB, MPhil, DTM&H ;   Sarah Day   2 , BA, BSocSci, MA, PhD ;   Bothwell Takaingofa Guzha   3 , MBChB, MRCOG, MPhil ;   Tasleem Ras   4 , MBChB, MFamMed, PhD ;   Valerie Anne Sills   1 , BSc, DPhil ;   Natalie Tegama   1 , PhD ;   Jennifer Moodley   2, 5 , MBChB, MMed, PhD ;   Fiona M Walter   1, 6 , MA, MD ;   Suzanne E Scott   1 , BSc, MSc, PhD

1 Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

2 School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

4 Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

5 Cancer Research Initiative, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, United Kingdom

6 The Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Kirsten D Arendse, MBChB, MPhil, DTM&H
  • Wolfson Institute of Population Health
  • Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
  • Charterhouse Square
  • London EC1M 6BQ
  • United Kingdom
  • Phone: 44 20 7882 3850
  • Email: k.arendse@qmul.ac.uk