How healthy are you?
Defined by World Health Organization (WHO), health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Based on the WHO and National Health Service (NHS)’s recommendation for adult aged 18 or above, below are some questions to reflect on your personal health:
The recommendation
Increased prevalence of chronic disease
About 13% of the world’s adult population (11% of men and 15% of women) were obese in 2016. The fundamental cause of obesity and overweight is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended. Globally, there has been:
- an increased intake of energy-dense foods that are high in fat; and
- an increase in physical inactivity due to the increasingly sedentary nature of many forms of work, changing modes of transportation, and increasing urbanization.
According to statistics from World Health Organization (WHO), The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing worldwide. Nearly half (approximately 45%, or 133 million) of all Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease (Raghupathi & Raghupathi 2018).
Benefits of physical activity for adults
Although exercise may not be the “super drug”, the health benefits of physical activity are well established.
The dilemma
While many people believe exercise can make them healthier, not many of them walk the talk. Guthold et al 2018, showed that globally, in 2016, more than a quarter of all adults was not getting enough physical activity. This puts more than 1.4 billion adults at risk of developing or exacerbating diseases linked to inactivity.
Here to help
Our aim is to encourage people to live healthier, both physically and mentally through a 24/7-health-focused platform that rewards you with mHealthCoin or tokens each time you engage in your healthy life and wellness. By syncing Smart Wearable Devices to our mHealthCoin Apps, users will be rewarded with mHealthToken in all aspects of calories expenditure — during exercising and sleeping.
Better exercise experience — AR game and exercise
AR game is incorporated to increase the level of fun exercise. In fact, it has been showed in a famous AR game that it may encourage people to move around more.
In our mHealtCoin app, every time users decide to do a workout, they can see if there is a campaign of a similar type to join. Users can then challenge the current champion by doing the same workout and try to break the record. The social endorsements and honors are big incentives to encourage users to move around more.
Monitor your health
Our smart wearable devices are designed to collect and monitor health data, and provide more specific analysis of body status for users. All the fitness missions offered by our app are social experience. It provides an opportunity to interact with peers with similar interests, which can in turn foster friendships among players. Therefore, the mHealthCoin platform benefits the users not only with tokens, but also physically and socially.
Safe and Efficient Access to Medical Records
mHealthCoin keeps users health records on a custom blockchain starting with their first contact to our mobile applications. By using blockchain technology, doctors and care providers can now work in one decentralized, shared ledger that update patient’s medical records, accessible to all parties explicitly authorized by the user, anywhere in the world in just minutes. So, every time when user go to the hospital or clinic for medical treatment, mHC platform can send and retrieve valuable information from the blockchain in just a few clicks on their phone.
Reference:
Guthold et al 2018, Worldwide trends in insufficient physical activity from 2001 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 358 population-based surveys with 1·9 million participants
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30357-7/fulltext#sec1
WHO Nutrition
https://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/2_background/en/
WHO Obesity and overweight
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
WHO Preventing CHRONIC DISEASES a vital investment
https://www.who.int/chp/chronic_disease_report/full_report.pdf
W. Raghupathi & V. Raghupathi 2018, An Empirical Study of Chronic Diseases in the United States: A Visual Analytics Approach to Public Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876976/
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