BACKGROUND:Nowadays, it has become the focus of people to seek effective and feasible prevention and control methods for chronic disease. With the vigorous development of electronic information, as a new thing in the development of science and technology, mobile health (mHealth) has a great potential in the prevention and management of chronic diseases. However, the current research on mHealth is less. OBJECTIVE:To explain the mode of mHealth in the prevention and control of chronic disease, its application effects, the current status of mHealth App at home and abroad, and to make the prospect of mHealth. METHODS:We searched for the literatures related to mHealth at home and abroad, and explored its development status. We retrieved Ovid database and China National Knowledge Infrastructure for articles published until December 2015. The key words were“mHealth, Chronic disease”. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) There were 32 English articles and 19 Chinese articles. Of them, 10 articles were about mHealth. 15 articles were related to chronic disease. 26 articles explored the use of mHealth in prevention and control of chronic disease. (2) Results suggested that mHealth has a certain effect and potential in the prevention and control of chronic diseases.%背景：当今，寻求高效可行的慢性病防控方法已成为人们关注的重点。随着电子信息的蓬勃发展，作为科技发展的新生事物，移动医疗在慢性病的预防和管理中具有巨大的潜在作用。然而当前关于此类的研究较少。 目的：阐述移动医疗应用于慢性病防控的方式、在不同人群中的应用效果以及国内外移动医疗App的现状，对移动医疗的前景作出展望。 方法：搜索国内外有关移动医疗的相关文献，探索其发展现状。检索至2015年12月为止Ovid数据库及CNKI中国期刊全文数据库，以“mHealth，Chronic disease”为英文检索词，“移动医疗，慢性病”为中文检索词。 结果与结论：①共涉及32篇英文文献和19篇中文文献，其中10篇文献关于移动医疗，15篇关于慢性病现状，26篇探讨了移动医疗在慢性病防控中的应用；②结果显示，移动医疗在慢性病防控方面具有一定的效果和潜力。
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