This will help ASHA workers diagnose anemia at the point of care.

First, a POC test must meet the particular environmental and operating constraints of where it will be used.

In order to meet their potential, however, POC tests must account for the wide range of factors affecting health care applications.

Likewise, POC tests must account for different tests requirements for clinical utility.

Effective POC tests are being developed the proliferation of mobile phones will further augment the capabilities of these tests.

Public healthcare is provided to all UK permanent residents and is mostly free at the point of need, being paid for from general taxation.

But there is reason for hope Advances in the field of microfluidics have the potential to transform health care by allowing gold standard laboratory based testing to be transferred to the point of care (POC).

The UK spends around 8.4 of its gross domestic product on healthcare, which is 0.5 percentage points below the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development average and about one percentage point below the average of the European Union.

In order to ensure the broadest coverage possible, POC tests should be designed to work in the settings with the fewest resources.

One of the most successful POC test formats is that of the well known pregnancy test, which requires only the user s urine and takes roughly 15 minutes to deliver the result.

Indeed, POC settings can vary from a semi trained health care provider working in a clinic with electricity and access to refrigeration to an untrained individual in an environment with no mechanism for controlling temperature or humidity.

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