Changes in Mobile Health Apps Usage Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: Semilongitudinal Survey.

Le Yang Jiadong Wu Xiaoxiao Mo Yaqin Chen Shanshan Huang Linlin Zhou Jiaqi Dai Linna Xie Siyu Chen Hao Shang Beibei Rao Bingtao Weng Ayiguli Abulimiti Siying Wu Xiaoxu Xie

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2023)

mHealth apps are an effective health care approach gaining in popularity among the Chinese population following the COVID-19 outbreak. This research provides direction for subsequent mHealth app development and promotion in the postepidemic era, supporting medical model reformation in China as a reference, which may provide new avenues for designing and evaluating indirect public health interventions such as health education and health promotion.

Keyphrases

healthcare
health promotion
public health
mental health
health information
quality improvement
risk assessment
climate change