The role of mobile health applications to improve the community health

Background: nowadays with development of information and communications technology, mobile soft wares play an important role in human society life and changed the life style of citizenry. one of extents that this technology put under its effect is hygiene and general health extent. mobile health is a terminology that used for applications which supported in medicine and general health extent by mobile communication devices. Objectives: this study performed with goal of acquaintance with the role of mobile health applications to improve the community health. Materials/Patients and Methods: the present study performed for review and Libraries, with use of keywords: applications, mobile health, health in data bases: google scholar, scopus, science direct, iran medex, SID, magiran, PubMed at years between 2000 to 2016. Results: from review of studies and produced soft wares in the extent of mobile health specified that this technology has wide range of applications at different and professional medical extents that have designed and developed with goal of increasing of individuals of the community knowledge in contexts of prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, prevention of cancer, attack against addiction etc. easy access at each time and place, ease of use, the offline showing of information attractively are from the benefits of mobile health applications. Conclusion: information technology with appearance in individuals life caused to evolution at life style of them and its penetration rate is increasing day by day. mobile health is one of the modern technologies that can influence impressively in improvement of health quality and individuals of the community life. regarding to the impressive role of mobile health in medical context, preventive cares and self-care, this technology will be very helpful in context of production of effective content and culture-building for promotion of community health status.