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

This interdisciplinary, 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 different segments of the population.

The program enables exercise prescription and monitors users’ performance and adherence in metabolic disease patients (MOVIDA.cronos), draws and follows up cardiac rehabilitation programs (MOVIDA.eros), tracks and quantifies indoor movements (MOVIDA.domus), and provides 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 (rui.pinto@ulo.pt)

Research Team

• ciTechCare: Bruno Carreira (bruno.p.carreira@gmail.com); Cátia Pontes (catia.pontes@ulo.pt); Maria Dulce Gomes (dulce.gomes@ulo.pt); Maria Pedro Guarino (maria.guarino@ulo.pt);
• University of Leiria and Oeste (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