Forecasting the Value for Money of Mobile Maternal Health Information Messages on Improving Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services in Gauteng, South Africa: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Amnesty LeFevre   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD, MHS ;   Maria A Cabrera-Escobar   ³ , MSc ;   Diwakar Mohan   ² , MD, DrPH ;   Jaran Eriksen   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Debbie Rogers   ⁵ , BSc, MA ;   Annie Neo Parsons   ⁶ , MS ;   Iman Barre   ² , MSPH ;   Youngji Jo   ² , PhD, Fellow ;   Alain Labrique   ² , PhD, MHS, MSc ;   Jesse Coleman   ^{3, 7 *} , MSc

¹ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

² Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

³ Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁴ Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

⁵ Praekelt Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁶ Jembi Health Systems, Cape Town, South Africa

⁷ Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

*these authors contributed equally