26.6.2020 | annailtu

The App That is Tackling Type 2 Diabetes in Finland One Healthy Habit at a Time

For anyone creating health-tracking mobile apps today (including us!), the StopDia type 2 diabetes prevention project and its BitHabit app are fantastic sources of inspiration.

StopDia is a research and public engagement project that is tackling prevention of type 2 diabetes in Finland through simple and daily lifestyle health interventions. The University of Eastern Finland, Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare, the VTT Technical Research Institute of Finland and regional healthcare organizations in Finland have teamed up to conduct one of the largest population risk screenings ever completed for type 2 diabetes, and to evaluate a technology-mediated intervention for at-risk individuals.

Read the whole article (originally published in Medium.com 5.7.2018)