Enabling Self Management for COVID 19 high risk groups

在新冠肺炎大流行的早期，患有心脏病、慢性呼吸道疾病、糖尿病、癌症和高血压等多种疾病的人在临床上特别容易感染新冠病毒。现在也变得明确的是，英国黑人、亚洲人和少数族裔(BAME)的人检测呈阳性并死于新冠肺炎的可能性更高。英国公共卫生组织最近的一份报告称，对确诊的新冠肺炎病例的生存分析表明，在考虑了性别、年龄、贫困和地区的影响后，与英国白人相比，孟加拉人的死亡风险大约是英国人的两倍。与英国白人相比，中国人、印度人、巴基斯坦人、其他亚洲人、加勒比海人和其他黑人的死亡风险高出10%到50%。为了向前迈进，该报告和专家提出了一些建议，以应对这给英国带来的挑战。具体而言，其中一项建议(建议5)指出，应制定和实施具有文化竞争力的新冠肺炎教育和预防运动。另一项主要建议是(建议6)加快努力，针对非传染性疾病开展具有文化能力的健康促进和疾病预防方案，促进健康体重、体力活动、戒烟、精神健康和有效管理糖尿病、高血压和哮喘等慢性病。我们目前的平台通过了NHS应用程序库的认证，在不同的条件下拥有超过2000名用户。NHS图书馆上的应用程序受到患者和从业者的信任，因为它们在有效性、临床安全性、遵守临床法规、数据保护、安全性、可用性和可访问性、互操作性和技术稳定性方面经过了严格的尽职调查。因此，我们对有效自我管理的数据点有了深刻的理解。

Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that people with multiple conditions such as heart disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure are particularly clinically vulnerable to COVID 19\.What has also now become clear is that people of British Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) origin are at a higher likelihood of testing positive and dying with COVID-19\.A recent report from Public Health England stated that an analysis of survival among confirmed COVID-19 cases showed that, after accounting for the effect of sex, age, deprivation and region, people of Bangladeshi ethnicity had around twice the risk of death when compared to people of White British ethnicity. People of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Other Asian, Caribbean and Other Black ethnicity had between 10 and 50% higher risk of death when compared to White British.In order to move forward, the report and experts made a number of recommendations to meet the challenge that this provided to the UK. In particular one of the recommendations ( recommendation 5 ) stated that was to develop and implement culturally competent COVID-19 education and prevention campaigns. Another key recommendation was to ( recommendation 6 ) Accelerate efforts to target culturally competent health promotion and disease prevention programmes for non-communicable diseases promoting healthy weight, physical activity, smoking cessation, mental wellbeing and effective management of chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension and asthma.Health Fabric has been a pioneer in the Digital Health space. Our current platform accredited on the NHS App Library and has over 2000 users across different conditions. The apps on the NHS library are trusted by patients and practitioners as they have gone through an exacting level of due diligence on compliance around Effectiveness, Clinical Safety, Adherence to clinical regulation, Data Protection, Security, Usability & Accessibility, Interoperability, and Technical Stability. As a result, we have a deep understanding of the data points around effective self-management.