The aimed to enhance the self-management of chronic non-communicable diseases (diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and obesity), by determining the usefulness, acceptance, and effectiveness of the Swasthya Pahal program in hospital and community settings in both rural and urban areas of India. This objective was met by generating risk factor profiles of individuals enrolled and enhancing their self-management of NCDs using a portable health information kiosk that employs the SMAARTTM model.

This project analysis the infectivity rates of COVID-19 across different states and Union territories across India.

This project involves familiarisation of the discussion board, research gap analysis, data extraction from discussion board, coding of qualitative data, turning code to theme, defining the themes.

The research project identifies, developing and implementing community-based interventions across various urban and rural settings in Chennai through data driven, evidence-based human centered interventions and behavior change modification techniques to enhance good health and well-being among populations living in diverse settings.

The study mapped data on various government portals in relation to digital health policy and implementation strategies that analyzed and evaluated the digital health policies, the current status, and explored the current state of digital health research and highlighted worldwide adoption of telemedicine, Health Information System (HIS) and informations and communication technology (ICT ) as an emerging trend.

Mobile apps have the potential to transform the practice and reach of medical care and research. Usage of pregnancy health apps are found to be effective interventions for creating maternal awareness regarding maternal weight monitoring and nutritional recommendations. The study aimed to assess various pregnancy diet apps available in google play store, along with evaluation of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and pregnancy specific nutrition information. Hundred percent (n=50) of the apps were freely available, thirty six percent (n=18) had a rating greater than 4 and 44% (n=22) belonged to health and fitness category. Twenty-seven BCTs (67.5%) were present across the included apps wherein 98% (n=49) stimulates anticipation of future rewards among its users. Most common pregnancy nutrition topics was related to nutritional information on major food groups (n=47, 94%).

Malnutrition is a major public health concern globally, particularly in developing countries. Interventions that use mobile health applications may be utilized to prevent and overcome the burden of malnutrition among the population. The study aimed to comprehensively assess and evaluate the features of malnutrition applications currently available in the Google Play Store based on user interface. 76 applications were found to be eligible and included in the study. Descriptive analysis showed that 97.37% (n=74) applications were available free of cost. The average rating was higher for 69.73% (n=53) applications and very few applications (n=4; 5.26%) were recently updated in 2021. The highest percentage of applications (n=25; 32.89%) had no users and the highest percentage (n=16; 21.05%) of applications had 100+ installations. Further, self-monitoring features were most common (n=38; 28.8%) followed by nutritional status assessment (n=34; 25.84%).

The study examined the quality of COVID-19 vaccine related information over the internet using the DISCERN tool and GQS. Majority of the video belonged to the “News & Politics” category (n=31, 46%), followed by “Education” category (n=23). The mean GQS of the included video was 3.7 ± 0.76. The mean DISCERN score of the included video was 55 ± 9.35 which denotes good quality and reliable information is available regarding COVID-19 vaccine on YouTube. Most videos talked about COVID-19 vaccine safety (n=44) and COVID-19 vaccine efficacy (n=44), followed by vaccine development process (n=14), myths (n=13) and lowest were information on vaccine cost and distribution (n=6).

There is a rapid growth in the availability of health and lifestyle apps in promoting health among the uses. Behavior change techniques along with appropriate guidance facilitate self-management and the change in disease-specific health behavior. However, behavior change techniques (BCTs) used in-app creation are yet to be explored. The review aimed at assessing the general characteristics and mapping of the included BCTs in health and lifestyle-based apps. Method: A search was conducted in February 2021 in India using the Apple App Store database to identify health and lifestyle apps. Keywords used for the search were Nutrition, Obesity, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Hypertension, Exercise, and Yoga.

SMAART Rapid Tracker (Research enabled Action oriented Policy Interventions driven by Data) is an interactive policy informatics platform tracking spread of COVID-19 outbreak and policy actions globally.