Guide to apps promoting healthy living

Guide to apps promoting healthy living

Apps Health Promotion Wellbeing

VicHealth reviewed over 200 health and wellbeing apps available on Apple® and Android™ devices between May and August 2015. The selected apps were reviewed to see if they were likely to help users change their behaviour and achieve a healthier lifestyle. Each app has been given a star rating and VicHealth aims to update those ratings annually.  You can see all the reviews along with tips for choosing apps on their Healthy Living Apps website. 

Indigenous health and welfare APP

Indigenous health and welfare APP

Apps Indigenous health Statistics

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a new APP - Indigenous Health and Welfare Statistics.  At this stage it is only available on the Apple platform, and you can search for it in the App store under Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. 

The App is mainly based on the AIHW report, The Health and welfare of Australias Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2015 but includes some information from other reports.  The APP includes topics such as population, education, employment, health, housing, life expectancy and determinants of health.  It features a favourites page and a detailed glossary. 

FoodSwitch App

FoodSwitch App

Apps Diet

Created by the George Institute for Global Health in Australia, the FoodSwitch app is now the number one downloaded food scanning app in the Australian Appstore."The free app helps consumers find out what is in the food they are eating and suggests simple, alternative healthier choices. FoodSwitch also has several filters designed to allow consumers to focus on their specific dietary requirements, including SaltSwitch, SugarSwitch and GlutenSwitch." The app is free to download.
Click here for the FoodSwitch app.

OzHealth app

OzHealth app

Apps Australia Statistics

The OzHealth App is a condensed version of the biennial health report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). It is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of national statistics and information on the health of all Australians.
 Features include:

• Fact sheet format exploring different topics
• User favourites page, enabling easy access to topics of interest
• Interactive quiz, allowing users to test their knowledge
• Detailed glossary 
• Info about AIHW
• Links to the AIHW website and other relevant websites

Search the App store under the Education section for OzHealth or click here.