An analysis of the development status and problems of mobile health APPs from the perspective of public health

Corresponding author: Yangxiaoyan, yangxy@eastern-himalaya.cn

DOI: 10.12201/bmr.202005.00247

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  Abstract: Abstract Objective The development status and problems of health-relating mobile APPs in the domestic app markets was analyzed for the purpose of supporting the further research and application of health-relating APPs. Methods A convenient sampling method was used to investigate and analyze all the health APPs in the 5 mainstream mobile APP markets. Results The overall downloads of health APPs were presented in a pyramid pattern, and the health APPs with high user usage are concentrated in a few; in any level of downloads, sports and fitness APPs and health APPs account for a high percentage; the problems of health-relating APPs were mainly the techinical and functional ones, accounting for about 65%~89%; at the same time, with the increasing downloads of health-relating APPs, the proportion of scientific was growing bigger. Conclusion The research and development of health APPs needs to strengthen the optimization of APP performance and the supervision of professional institutions, at the same time, we suggest relevant government departments and public health systems use big data to expand service channels and jointly promote user-focused health APPs with stable performance and diversified functions, to extend and enrich the work content, to facilitate the development of public health.

  Key words: APP; mobile health; public health services

  Submit time: 7 December 2020

  Copyright: The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted biomedRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.
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