mHealth: A Technology for Improve Wellbeing to Raise People Awareness

Background :Mobile health (mHealth) is a sub-segment of eHealth and covers medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices.Mobile applications for health are becoming more and more popular. mHealth can also support the performance of health care workers by the dissemination of clinical updates, learning materials, and reminders, particularly in underserved rural locations in low- and middle-income countries.The aim of this study is to raise people awareness benefits of mobile health application. Objectives : The objectives of this study are : performance of mobile health efficiency for example , put the patient in control, giving greater independence, and helping to prevent health problems make a more efficient healthcare system . It especially includes the use of mobile communication devices for health and well-being services and information purposes as well as mobile health applications. Material and Methods: An electronic search of medline (pubmed) and medical journals databases from 2000 to the present. Results : We hypothesize, that recent developments in mHealth resulted in a growing number of articles investigating beneficial effects of mobile phone usage on health. Topics reporting adverse effects are generally growing slower relatively to the total number of articles compared to articles reporting beneficial effects. Especially articles on patient monitoring systems, short text messaging for health application and monitoring of activity of daily living are on the rise. Conclusion: Creative use of new mobile and wearable health information and sensing technologies (mhealth ) has the potential reduce the cost of health care and improve well-being in numerous ways. Limitations to mHealth tools included insufficient program use and sustainability, unreliable Internet and electricity, and security issues.