The aim of the citizen science project Every Walk You Take, promoted by a team from the University of Barcelona, is to promote active and healthy aging of citizens through a new mobile application that shows walking routes through green areas in Barcelona with data on geolocation, obstacles, pollution and weather in real time. This initiative aims to promote physical activity and health among the over-55 population through a new mobile-assisted health intervention (mHealth). This innovative app, presented in an article published in Sustainability , provides new digital tools for Barcelona's citizens to become actively and directly involved in their health care.
In addition, the app can also be implemented in different cities around the world committed to citizen participation and community health. Every Walk You Take is an initiative of experts from the UB's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, with the participation of teaching teams and students from the Adult Education Centers (CFA) of the Bon Pastor and Trinitat Vella neighborhoods and social, cultural and health agents from the Sant Andreu district. The new proposal is part of the IMPETUS project to support citizen and participatory science initiatives.
Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide and generates a high health and economic cost, a factor that must be added to the progressive aging of the population. "This project has allowed us t.
