Development of a Mobile Health Architecture to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Abstract

Childhood obesity has become a major problem around the world. In many cases children develop unhealthy eating patterns, resulting in excess energy intake, because they eat alone without their parents or teachers advice (e.g. at school). In this paper we present a mobile health architecture intended to prevent childhood obesity by promoting good health behaviors with a set of mHealth applications. These applications and architecture provide proper capturing data and user interfaces especially suited for children; they also provide notifications and messages from adults to improve results.

PISIoT: A Machine Learning and IoT-Based Smart Health Platform for Overweight and Obesity Control

“…In addition, they proposed a system for WIoT that recommends new directions regarding clinical and operative procedures. Likewise, Vázquez et al [16] proposed new mobile health architecture to prevent childhood obesity through healthy eating suggestions using mobile health alternatives. In addition, they considered messages and notifications for a healthy diet for adults.…”

Diseño de una aplicación Web para el seguimiento y control del sobrepeso u obesidad a través del paradigma del IoT

“…Vazquez et al [6] presentaron una arquitectura de salud móvil destinada a prevenir la obesidad infantil mediante la promoción de buenos comportamientos de salud, con un conjunto de aplicaciones mHealth. Las aplicaciones proporcionaron notificaciones y mensajes a los de adultos para mejorar los resultados.…”

“…Como se muestra en la Tabla 1 (integrada por los elementos: a. wearable, b. conectividad, c. interoperabilidad, d. integración, e. parámetros médicos, y f. recomendación médica), los trabajos [5,6,7,13,14] cuentan con la inclusión de parámetros médicos, pero no proporcionan recomendaciones médicas.…”