The SESA (State Health Services) tries to raise awareness among young people through a new mobile application. With “Learn +” you could learn about oral, sexual and reproductive health, accident prevention, cancer, obesity and overweight.
The application developed by SESA Tlaxcala already has more than 75 thousand users with whom it seeks to normalize medical and sexual prevention among Mexican youth. Raising awareness is paramount to this digital effort, whose goal is to have a healthier and more conscious youth about the health problems they may encounter today.
This type of initiative is necessary in a country where youth is not exempt from health problems. Also, this application can give us in detail a radiography of how young people treat these issues.
In Mexico, three out of ten people in full productive age, that is, between the ages of 20 and 39 already have metabolic syndrome, which means that they live with at least three different related conditions, whether obesity, high sugar, hypertension or high triglycerides, which puts them at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Between the ages of 20 and 29, 23% of young people are hypertensive, that is, one in five young people, are diabetic and have cholesterol above 130.
Likewise, the adolescent population in general is perceived as healthy, while 2% of them consider their health to be bad.
On the subject of exposure to tobacco, the measure taken is to have smoked 100 cigarettes in his or her life, which only 9% have, and it’s noted that 42% of young people have never smoked. The prevalence increases with increasing age, reaching 25% in young people aged 19.
A similar situation is observed with exposure to alcohol; On average, young people aged 10 to 19 have a prevalence of 11%, which changes with age. It is noteworthy that, from 15 years old, 10% of young people consume alcohol, and that at 19 years the prevalence rises to 31%.
Through the videos and tutorials of the app Learn+ the goal is to achieve the task of educating more and more young people. Prevention is an important part of the health of the average Mexican teenager, and not visits to hospitals, nor the use of medicines. The app has a capacity for more than 300 thousand users and uses questionnaires to rate the level of learning of young people.
