CheckUp Health - Saving Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Lives

CheckUp Health - 拯救黑人、亚洲人和少数族裔的生命

• 批准号: 92765
• 金额: $ 5.5万
• 依托单位: THE FLAME LILY HEALTHCARE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=92765
• 关键词: CheckUp; Health; Saving; Black; Asian

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people are more likely than Caucasians to have high blood pressure (HBP) or Type2 diabetes (T2D). The UK has ~4 million people with T2D (Diabetes UK, 2020). T2D is up to 6 times more likely in South Asians and 3 times more likely in Africans/Africa-Caribbeans (Ibid). Half of T2D sufferers have HBP, which is 3-4 times more likely to occur in black people of African/Africa-Caribbean descent than white people (Action on Salt, 2020). Health issues resulting from HBP/T2D cost the NHS £2.1bn annually (Public Health England, 2017). Every decade, poor monitoring of HBP/T2D causes the loss of ~7,000 quality adjusted UK life years (PHE, 2017). These losses are unsustainable and need a solution.Improvements in HBP/T2D prevention and treatment are desperately needed (South Asian Health Foundation, 2020) to avoid BAME deaths and reduce the cost of these diseases to the NHS. A remote monitoring solution for HBP/T2D in the BAME population could address healthcare inequalities exposed by Covid-19; reduce cases requiring intervention (Kim, 2020); and save the NHS millions previously spent on the fallout of poor disease monitoring. Critically, it could save BAME lives.We offer an alternative solution to the current, high-cost and ineffective approach to HBP/T2D monitoring that is failing the BAME population during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through CheckUp, BAME HBP/T2D patients self-monitor and remotely report to healthcare professionals. CheckUp reduces required GP appointments for BAME HBP/T2D patients, saving the NHS money and reducing the exposure of BAME HBP/T2D to Covid-19 by providing remote monitoring.

黑人、亚洲人和少数民族（BAME）人比白种人更容易患高血压（HBP）或2型糖尿病（T2D）。英国约有400万T2D患者（Diabetes UK, 2020）。南亚人发生T2D的可能性高出6倍，非洲人/非洲-加勒比人发生T2D的可能性高出3倍（同上）。一半的糖尿病患者患有高血压，非洲/非洲-加勒比裔黑人患高血压的可能性是白人的3-4倍（防治食盐行动，2020年）。HBP/T2D导致的健康问题每年花费NHS 21亿英镑（英国公共卫生部，2017年）。每十年，对HBP/T2D的不良监测导致约7,000质量调整后的英国生命年的损失（PHE, 2017）。这些损失是不可持续的，需要一个解决方案。迫切需要改善高血压/糖尿病的预防和治疗（南亚健康基金会，2020年），以避免BAME死亡，并减少这些疾病对NHS的成本。针对BAME人群的HBP/T2D远程监测解决方案可以解决Covid-19暴露的医疗不平等问题；减少需要干预的病例（Kim, 2020）；并为英国国家医疗服务体系节省了此前因疾病监测不力而花费的数百万美元。至关重要的是，它可以挽救BAME的生命。我们为当前高成本和无效的HBP/T2D监测方法提供了一种替代解决方案，这种方法在Covid-19大流行期间未能满足BAME人群的需求。通过CheckUp， BAME HBP/T2D患者自我监测并远程报告给医疗保健专业人员。体检减少了BAME HBP/T2D患者的全科医生预约，节省了NHS的资金，并通过提供远程监测减少了BAME HBP/T2D对Covid-19的暴露。