Diabetes Management Self-Helper Mobile Application for Malaysian Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Abstract

Diabetes is worldwide epidemic that is included projected to be 7 th highest death cause by 2030. WHO updated in March 2013 that 347 million people around the world are affected by diabetes. To improvise diabetics’ self-management, self-help mobile health applications are introduced for smartphones users around the world to help them in managing the disease effectively and efficiently. However, studies show that these applications are lacking in many areas and specifically in Malaysia, the existence of applications that are made for local type 2 diabetes patients is negligible as most of them are made overseas, hence do not really take specific lifestyle patterns of Malaysians into account