Medical app is a smart phone application software or program that is designed to give medical related information to the user such suggestions of therapies and medicine, information about condition and diseases, new medical research etc.
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Knocking at Alternate Doors: Survey of Android-Based Smartphone Applications for Alternate Medicines
Rafiullah Khan (The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan), Mohib Ullah (The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan),
Bushra Shafi (The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan), Urooj Beenish Orakzai (Government Girls Degree College, Peshawar, Pakistan), and Seema Shafi (Charssada Homeopathic Medical College, Pakistan)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2521-0.ch002
Abstract
Despite the extraordinary progression in modern medicines, alternative medicine has always been practiced. Alternative medicine or complementary medicine is a term referring to any practice that aims to achieve healing effects using pseudoscience or without biological explanation. The major drawback of alternative medicine is that these medicines are not scientifically tested as claimed by different studies. Nevertheless, according to the World Health Organization, more than 70% of the population of developing countries prefer alternative medicine systems. In this work, a review of ten most popular Android based smartphone applications that belongs to two most popular alternative medicines systems i.e. Homeopathy and Ayurveda are presented. The apps are selected based on the number of reviews, user rating, and the number of downloads provided by Google's play store. From the reviews of users, it was noted that most of the users are satisfied with the selected smartphone app. Based on this fact, it can be implicitly concluded that these medical systems can effectively solve user health-related issues.