e-NCD Your health with UNRWA

UNRWA NCD Mobile Application

Description

UNRWA is strengthening its strategy to main prevention non-communicable ailments (NCDs), specifically diabetes and hypertension, via well being schooling and raising the notice on danger components among Palestine refuges. UNRWA’s Health Department determined in 2019 to develop this cell utility, which is a mirrored image of the paper NCD booklet, aiming to harness mobile know-how to provide sustainable, scalable and cost-effective options for Palestine refugees and any Arabic speaking particular person on the planet concerning diabetes and hypertension, and their risk factors, and to reduce publicity of the patients to incapacity or premature demise.

Expected Impact

1.Improved well being promotion and protecting behaviours and decreased danger behaviours;

2.Reduced well being cost burden for remedy, decreased demise and disability rates and greater productivity for those patients;

3.Improved adherence to chronic disease management/treatment compliance for NCDs.

Objectives and Important Attributes of the Application

1.Enable Palestine refugee sufferers registered at UNRWA health centers to retrieve the updated contents of their well being data inside UNRWA’s e-Health system whereas online;

2.Educate and empower Palestine refugee patients, those with and without NCDs, to have the ability to higher self-care and outcomes;

3.Provide the flexibility to self-monitoring and access to health training for UNRWA-registered Palestine refugees and any Arabic talking individuals anywhere on the earth;

4.Provide well being training content material as a part of the appliance and the related web site, along with push notifications and QA section;

Categories of individuals anticipated to make use of the NCD cell application

The NCD cellular utility will show a web page with the following categorization choices of users, based mostly on which the functionalities will be barely completely different:

1.UNRWA registered patients/ users:

a.NCD sufferers

b.Non-NCD patients

2.UNRWA non-registered NCD patients/ users and normal people anyplace on the earth.

The above choices have to be chosen by the user earlier than accessing the App

They will NOT appear every time the App is accessed, solely upon first registration

Based on the class utilized in registration the cellular content material will be completely different accordingly.