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Building a Healthcare System for Obese Patients

Ahmed Abdelgader Fadol OsmanAssistant Professor, College of Computer Science and Information, Open University of the Sudan, Sudan and Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi ArabiaAouf Abdulrahman Al-DabalDepartment of Computer Science and Information, College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Al-Ahsa, Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi ArabiaFahad Mohammed Al-BualiDepartment of Computer Science and Information, College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Al-Ahsa, Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia

Vol 4 No 8 (2020): Volume 4, Issue 8, August 2020 | Pages: 12-19

International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology

OPEN ACCESS | Research Article | Published Date: 12-08-2020

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Abstract

Obesity has become one of the most common public health problems affecting people of both sexes according to the statistics of the World Health Organization in 2020, 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese (who, 2020). Being obese can increase your risk of developing many potentially serious health conditions [2]. Compounding this problem is the lack of awareness among people of its danger. Many studies proved that more than 65% of obese patients facing difficulty in communicating with Nutrition physician (Truswell, 2000) (Katja Mikhailovich, 2007) (Kathryn M. Kolasa, 2010) (TerrillBravender, 2013) (S M E van Dillen, 2008). therefore, The proposed system deal with this problem by designing a simple system contains effective feature such as live chat, to make communication between user and nutrition doctors easy and to and allow them to have a healthy lifestyle. In addition to helping increase awareness to avoid obesity. Eventually, the researchers implemented the system using PHP language for the backend of the website and using HTML, CSS, bootstrap, and JavaScript for frontend and MySQL for databases.

Keywords

health care systems; obesity; nutrition doctor; live chat, BMI, BMR


Citation of this Article

Ahmed Abdelgader Fadol Osman, Aouf Abdulrahman Al-Dabal, Fahad Mohammed Al-Buali, “Building a Healthcare System for Obese Patients” Published in International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology - IRJIET, Volume 4, Issue 8, pp 12-19, August 2020. https://doi.org/10.47001/IRJIET/2020.408003

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