Book Description
In India, the combination of an aging population and adverse behaviors such as obesity and smoking will create epidemics of diseases like diabetes, heart problems, and other chronic diseases that last a lifetime and are difficult to treat. As per the World Health Organization (WHO), the spread of chronic disease will increase 2.5 times with numbering 84 million in 1995 to 228 million in 2025. In developing countries like India, chronic disease will spread with a rate of 60%. Also with emergence of COVID -19 pandemic since Dec 2019 the existing problems of chronic diseases in aged population has caused global mortality and morbidity. To manage such a fast occurring and fast spreading respiratory infection many health gadgets and apps have contributed significantly to control its impact like thermal scanners, pulse oximeters , health apps like arogya setu , online pharmacy apps etc. Apart from it India has more than 1.3 billion population and has constraints of health care personnel and facilities. The primary care health care provider must become more organized and automated. The internet and digital medical information will have a major disruptive effect on the practice of medicine. The solution to such health care challenges is real time, team-based and multi-disciplinary care which can only be attained by advanced health gadgets and health apps. Through health gadgets and apps the user can process the health information and manage body statistics in real time manner. Earlier authors have focussed over commercial or technological side of health gadgets and apps. This book and research work is an academic contribution for linking the user intention with benefits of health gadgets ad apps. The authors have tried to provide a insight about health gadget and apps in India, considering it promising solution and basis of proactive health care delivery model in India.
