Dear Agnis,
Congratulations for your Team!
Success your entrepreneurship personal and professional
Best regards,
Jerônimo
All the best for you too, Jerônimo !!
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The solution provides a framework for the development of sustainable technological solutions to incite behavior change instead of short term or superficial symptom reduction. Too many innovations fight the symptoms of a deeper, behavioral problem in our society. For example, health technologies that focus on reducing obesity by giving people the means to lose weight, or programs that are treating mental health & wellbeing at an individual level.
Participants relapse after a weight loss program or new technology as soon as they lose interest or the program ends. One example: after a gastric bypass surgery, up to 50 % of patients regain some amount of weight. And this surgery may have severe complications. This is a perfect example of symptom relief which dissipates (partially) after the intervention. Our society and the medical world needs the tools to construct innovation that fights the cause of NCD's. Not the symptoms. We can continue to keep building solutions that address symptoms, or we can take a step back and redefine the way we come up with innovative health technologies. When compared to the medical world. Instead of giving blood lowering drugs, we could focus on removing salt from our diets, lower the BMI of the population, stimulate healthy behaviour. This has also been proven far more effective in terms of points of lower blood pressure. Lower the blood pressure with a drug and the symptoms are gone, but the disease is still very much there.
Concluding: for a solution to be truly effective it should cause a paradigm shift in society and individual attitude. The framework supplied in our solution provides programs working on solutions to reduce NDC's with the tools to pinpoint the root problem. And most importantly, the framework facilitates durable, sustainable technological innovation, which impact outlasts the period of its implementation.
In one sentence + example: The framework provides a solution to focus on the underlying cause of a problem, changing the root and preventing disease, instead of stimulating people to fight the symptoms. It has been known that preventing the cause of NCD's or fighting the root problem is more cost-effective than medical intervention. Concrete example: losing weight or reducing salt intake has a more significant and longer lasting effect on Blood pressure lowering than a combination of drugs.
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