Primary prevention of stroke through development of mobile health application

Stroke is a primary neurological disorder that exists in the world and causes both physical and mental disability. Based on WHO data, among 17 million new stroke cases, 7 million of them died from strokes. Indonesia's Sample Registration System (SRS) in 2014 showed that stroke was the main cause of death, which is 21.1% of all causes of death for all age groups. The purpose of this study is to obtain more comprehensive information regarding the development of mobile health application for primary prevention of stroke. The design used is Literature review. Articles were collected through Cochrane, Science Direct, Pubmed, Elseiver, Proquest (Links are from the library of unhas.ac.id) Pubmed, WHO, CDC, Google Scholar. The keywords used were stroke, primary prevention, risk factor, smartphone. After collecting the article then article synthesis was made. Based on the reading results of the article, it shows that the incidence of stroke increased from year to year and became the main cause of disability and death. So it needs prevention from upstream sector, in this case primary prevention, through the development of mhealth applications using smartphones that can calculate the risk of strokes in 5 and 10 years. By using the application, it can provide information about the dangers of stroke, risk factors and how to overcome them. The development of digital technology, application of stroke can effectively reduce the incidence of stroke.