每日外刊 | 考研阅读-健康软件是否真的使我们更健康？|adj|apps|health|mhealth|翻译

背景知识

国际医疗卫生会员组织HIMSS给出的定义为，mHealth，就是通过使用移动通信技术——例如PDA、移动电话和卫星通信来提供医疗服务和信息，具体到移动互联网领域，则以基于安卓和iOS等移动终端系统的医疗健康类App应用为主。它为发展中国家的医疗卫生服务提供了一种有效方法，在医疗人力资源短缺的情况下，通过移动医疗可解决发展中国家的医疗问题。兴起：20世纪60、70年代，就出现了远程医学（Tele-medicine）和远程医疗(Tele-healthy)的概念。

正文阅读

Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?

健康软件是否真的使我们更健康？

点击查看翻译

In the past few years, a number of companies have marketed wearable devices and mobile apps that can track our personal health data. These "mHealth" devices and apps have led to the birth of what is known as the "quantified self" — a phenomenon where individuals start tracking their behavioral, physiological, biological, and other kinds of health markers.

在过去的几年中，许多公司已销售可追踪我们的个人健康数据的可穿戴设备和移动应用程序。这些“mHealth”设备和应用程序催生了所谓的“量化生活”，即个体开始追踪其行为，生理，生物学和其他种类的健康标志的现象。

点击查看翻译

A key question of interest in this ecosystem remained unanswered up until recently: Is there any scientific evidence that consumer adoption and usage of these wearable devices and mobile health apps actually leads to a tangible change in their behavior, which, in turn, can show up in concrete health care outcomes? This is the question my coauthors and I investigated in a recently published paper.

直到最近，这个生态系统仍未解决一个关键性问题：是否有任何科学证据表明，消费者对这些可穿戴设备和移动健康应用的采用和使用实际上导致其行为发生了实质性变化，从而可以显示在具体的医疗保健结果方面？这是我和我的合著者在最近发表的一篇论文中调查的问题。

点击查看翻译

The adoption of the mHealth app led to an improvement in both short-term metrics (such as a reduction in patients' blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin levels) and longer-term metrics (such as a reduction in hospital visits and medical expenses). Patients who adopted the mHealth app undertook higher levels of exercise, consumed healthier food with lower calories, walked more steps, and slept longer on a daily basis. Our study shows that users of mHealth devices and apps can became more autonomous and more motivated in self-regulating their health behavior and more engaged and consistent in their lifestyle and wellness behavior, which leads to improved health outcomes.

通过使用mHealth应用程序，短期指标（例如降低患者的血糖和糖化血红蛋白水平）和长期指标（例如减少就诊和医疗费用）均得到改善。使用mHealth应用程序的患者每天都要进行更高水平的运动，食用更健康的食品，降低卡路里，走更多的步伐并且睡得更长一些。我们的研究表明，mHealth设备和应用程序的用户可以变得更加自主，可以更加主动地自我调节自己的健康行为，并使其生活方式和健康行为更具参与性和一致性，从而改善健康状况。（原文中最后一句“can became”疑似语法错误，或为“can become”）

点击查看翻译

今日单词