My Health Info: An Informative mHealth App for Healthcare and Weight Control

Health is one of the most relevant issues today, health plans and strategies for disease prevention are made in Mexico every six years, a problem is that approximately 70% of Mexicans are obese and overweight which causes diseases such as diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension among others representing a considerable expense for health institutions in the country, to prevent this awareness, there are programs to improve population diet and physical activity. Information technologies and smartphone users are growing every day and are using mobile applications for health awareness, an informative application of health-care is developed in this paper to help with this issues, the application is divided into four sections, one is about calories contained in most common foods in the region, the next is about weight control which calculates the body mass index, ideal weight and daily water intake, other show nearby pharmacies based on your current location and last, natural treatments for hair.