M Yoga App Launched UPSC
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Why in News ?

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched WHO M-Yoga App while addressing on the occasion of 7thInternational Day of Yoga.

Key Facts

• M-Yoga app will provide many videos of Yoga training and practice.
• It is based on common Yoga protocol in many languages.

  

• Terming this as a great example of fusion of modern technology and ancient science
• M-Yoga app will help in spreading Yoga world over and will contribute to the efforts of One World,One Health.
• This mobile app will be immensely helpful in the promotion of Yoga and wellness among people around the world, especially during the ongoing pandemic.
• It will play an instrumental role in re-rehabilitation of the health of the Covid patients who have recovered from Covid-19.

Need for M-Yoga App

• Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organization (WHO) had jointly undertaken a project in mid 2019, focusing on mobile-Yoga.
• It envisaged the concept of the ‘Be Healthy, Be Mobile’ (BHBM)
• The concept under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030.
• Be Healthy, Be Mobile (BHBM) initiative is a global partnership led by WHO which supports the scale up of mobile health (m-Health) technology.
• In order to achieve the above objectives, a memorandum of understanding was signed in July, 2019 between WHO and the Ministry of AYUSH.

Details of M-Yoga App

• M Yoga project focused on four areas
  • Common Yoga Protocol for GeneralWellness
  • Yoga for mental health and resilience
  • Yoga for Adolescents
  • Yoga for pre – Diabetics.
• Currently launched app is available in two of the six official languages of the UN i.e English and Hindi.
• Common Yoga Protocol booklets, video shoots, their translations in 6 major UN languages and designs of the booklets under the directives of Ministry of AYUSH,

Be Healthy, Be Mobile

7 billion mobile telephone subscriptions across the world  has the potential to transform the face of health service delivery across the globe. 

Increasing threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which kill 41 million people each year, around 71% of all deaths.

• To address this challenge, the Be Healthy, Be Mobile (BHBM) initiative was set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication union (ITU) in 2012.
• BHBM works with governments to scale up mHealth services for NCDs and their risk factors.
• Major objective
  • The major objective is to continue expanding the number of countries it works with and the variety of diseases it addresses.
  • To achieve Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals for global community by 2030.

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