Abstract
Mobile applications for chronic disease self-management : building a bridge for behavior change
Highlights
Intervention can be defined as any act to enhance patient outcomes
A quick browse through the first page of the results reveals that eHealth in these studies can stand for telemedicine, mHealth using mobile applications, telehealth, video consultation, personal health records and cloud computing
Duplicates, foreign language applications, nonhealthcare related applications and applications not focusing on humans were removed, which left 196 applications for a closer look
Summary
Intervention can be defined as any act to enhance patient outcomes. It is something each and every nurse and healthcare professional does every day. In 2007, the European Union published a White Paper in which it acknowledged the worsening trend of poor diets and low physical activity and their part in increasing level of chronic diseases. Among these diseases are cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, certain cancers and even some mental health conditions. In high-income countries seven out of ten leading risk factor causes of death are caused by the way people eat, drink or move and the numbers are very alike in other parts of the world too (WHO 2009, 11) These factors are high blood pressure, overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, high blood glucose, high cholesterol, low fruit and vegetable intake and alcohol use. Adding tobacco use to the list sums up the top four behavioral risk factors that are behind most chronic diseases
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