Imagine having to be at the mercy of a doctor or nurse every time you want to check your general health wellness?
Yes, we are inadvertently at their mercy health wise but realistically it is much of a hassle having to have them around us at our behest all the time.
It is on the aegis of this that a health app known as ‘C-Score” was developed to give the populace the opportunity of measuring their health through their various smartphones.
Yes, you read it right, through your mobile phone, and within 10 minutes!
This should obviously catch your fancy.
The app developed by Chelsea Digital ventures, a startup of renowned London-based Football club, Chelsea Football Club and digital healthcare experts, HUMA helps to asses and gauge 7 lifestyle factors known as major predictors of disease and mortality.
The 7 lifestyle factors the app checks are:
- Self-rated health: The app quizzes you first how you feel about your general health, as it is believed you know your body more than anyone else.
- Resting heart rate: By simply placing your finger on your phone camera, the app measures your heart rate.
- Sleep: The app has a questionnaire that aptly captures how many hours you slept on average over the last week and the quality of that sleep you had.
- Smoking: If you are someone who smokes, the app notes the amount of tobacco cigarettes you smoked during an average week.
- Alcohol: The volume and the categories of alcohol drank during an average week is captured.
- Waste to height ratio: The app uses your smart phone camera will be used to determine your waist circumference. This usually requires you having an extra person to help you with this process.
- Reaction time: The app does a simple test where you lift your finger immediately a shape changes colour.
After you might have completed each domain, you are then provided with a point-based measure or a number from 0 to 100 known as C-Score that shows a reflection of your general health. It means the higher your C-Score, the better your general health is.
The app gives you the leverage to see how your health compares for example to that of the people in UK Biobank, a national health database made up of individuals aged between 40-69 years whose health data was collected between 2006-2010 and who are still sharing their data so their health can be tracked.
The score is then taken and compared against 500,000 people in the UK Biobank, with you being able to see how your health compares to the people in the UK Biobank, while also indicating the percentage of people who gave similar and different answers, to them or better still had data in the same or different range as them.
This innovation is believed to make things easier for various users to check their general we-being and is available for download for both iOS and Android users.