Aplicativo para disseminação de conteúdo digital sobre saúde do homem

Abstract

In view of the low demand of men for health services, the low life expectancy, the high mortality rate compared to the female sex, the need to provide better health conditions to the male population, also, with special increase and diffusion in the area of Nursing, the development of Educational Technologies (ET) to support educational practices, this research aimed to develop an application for the dissemination of digital content on men's health. For the development of the application, a survey of minimum content to be shared from the initial version of the application was carried out, which are based on the National Policy for Comprehensive Attention to Men's Health (PNAISH) and the Strategic Action Plan for Combating Chronic Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases in Brazil. Then, the material in video format was prepared for sharing from the initial version of the application. A presentation was made to a group of workers, with the theme of one of the contents selected for the composition of the application. The basic functionalities of the application have been defined. The development of the application was done using the Python language with the Streamlit framework. The application was hosted on a virtual server configured in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Among the limitations identified in the present study, the impossibility of evaluation of the application by the participants is highlighted, since there was no filling out of the form sent to the collaborators, making it difficult to analyze the results.