Question

write a report reflecting upon development of a healthy living mHealth application.

1. why should college students be selected as target audience?

2. What areas of obesity would you target through the Healthy living mHealth application. What methodologies would you implement to improve engagement with your mHealth application (i.e. specific types of persuasive technology).

3. talk about data being collected via healthy living mHealth App which are : Nutrition, exercise, sleep and weight.

4. How could you evaluate the effectiveness of the healthy living mHealth utilizing the being collected.
5. How could you evaluation the cost-effectiveness of the healthy living mHealth application.

6. Finally, what will you learn about mHealth application and perception grown/changed about consumer health informatics

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. Mobile health applications are the present innovative technologies which are near for all the people through electronic devices. m Health application reflects the life styles of the persons, especially it is targeted on the college students. The reason of the target is college students mostly find difficulty in reaching of the health promotion or healthy life styles to extent their life in terms of healthy life style practices adaption. Using of the mobile applications many apps are attracting the students and teenagers on how to become fit, weight loss, maintaining of the abs, slim body stature, fitness apps, healthy diet menu, etc all of those reflects the life style of the people.

2. By using healthy living mobile health application the areas of obesity targeted are sedentary areas people, teenagers, adolescents, heavy work load areas, work places of people, unhealthy life style practices, busy scheduled areas are targeted as these areas of people may present for the highest risk of obesity. The methods which can be used to improve the life style of the people using m health applications are feed back of health and environmental status, self monitoring of weight and health, social networking areas and groups for interaction with other people in order to attain a healthy life style practices and behavior towards health.