Chronic disease prevention and management combined with rehabilitation programs establishes a true challenge for the healthcare community. Epidemiological studies reveal an increased prevalence of cardiovascular and chronic diseases and specify supervised physical activity as a strong tool to control their progression.

This interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project will create a global health community program centred on a platform with a mobile app and a dashboard to monitor physical activity, divided into 4 main modules to target several branches of the population.

The program enables exercise prescription and monitors user’s performance and adherence in metabolic disease patients (MOVIDA.cronos), draws and follows up cardiac rehabilitation programs (MOVIDA.eros), tracks and quantify indoor movements (MOVIDA.domus), and access to a stratified training circuit to maintain or improve fitness levels in healthy users (MOVIDA.polis).

Keywords: Community Health; Digital health; Mobile computing

Principal Investigator: Rui Fonseca-Pinto

Research Team

• ciTechCare: Bruno Carreira; Cátia Pontes; Maria Dulce Gomes; Maria Pedro Guarino;
• Polytechnic University of Leiria (School of Technology and Management): Maria Alexandra Seco; Pedro Assunção; Ricardo Martinho; Rui Rijo
• Polytechnic Institute of Tomar: Gabriel Pires; Luís Oliveira; Pedro Correia
• Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco: Catarina Leitão

Research Unit: Telecommunications Institute – Polytechnic of Leiria delegation

Duration: 18 months (2017 – 2019)

Institutional Partners and Others

• Polytechnic Institute of Tomar
• Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco
• Municipality of Leiria
• Unidade Local de Saúde da Região de Leiria E.P.E. (ULS Região de Leiria)
• Santiago Primary Care Unit

Website: https://movida.ipleiria.pt/parceiros-do-projeto/ 

Reference: SAICT-POL/23878/2016

Funding: FCT