Development of an Android mobile application to monitor and control daily health of users

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic or long-term diseases, are the result of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors that, once initiated, can last a lifetime. The main types are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD and asthma) and diabetes. In this context, the Agencia de Salud Pública de Cataluña (ASPCAT) initiated several cancer prevention and health promotion programmes some years ago, which are promoted through primary health care. In this sense, and with the intention of promoting prevention and facilitating the daily lives of these patients, the mobile application Applud has been created. This application aims to be a tool that helps middle-aged people to keep track of their health, both for patients with chronic diseases and for the healthy population at risk of developing one of these diseases.