An App about Healthy Habits as an Educational Resource during the Pandemic

Educational institutions and their agents play a fundamental role in improving people’s health literacy and quality of life. We intend here to describe and justify an educational resource embodied in an application for mobile devices developed through a subsidized project by the Ministry of Health (Government of Andalusia); the purpose of this app is to educate young people in healthy habits. The application was designed to be easily used in both smartphones and tablets with the aim of achieving good physical, psychological and social health. The project comprises several phases and the results we have so far show that, from an early age, health institutions and educational settings must work in partnership, increasing health literacy levels. This cooperative work combined with the use of this innovative approach presents an important potential for change in the lifestyles of younger generations. This type of intervention took on a special role in the pandemic context, allowing for the maintenance of the educational stimulus in a safe context ; Project of the three-year period 2017–2019. This study was funded by the Health Council of the Government of Andalusia, in compliance with Resolution of 20 December 2016, of the General Secretariat of Healthcare Research, Development and Innovation, in the call of grants for the funding of Research in Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Development and Innovation in Andalusia for the year 2016, with file number PIN-0445-2016 and a total duration of 36 months. This study was funded by EPIT 2021 (University of Huelva, Spain). Currently it is also supported by the Andalusian ERDF Operational Program 2014–2020 (reference UHU-202062) The authors would like to thank the families and educational centers for their disinterested participation in the data gathering process, as well as the entities that collaborated in this project, funded by the Health Council of the Government of Andalusia, whose economic and general support keeps this project going: Atlantic Copper Foundation, Cei.mar ...