The leading global cause of high mortality has
been identified to be chronic non-communicable diseases
such as stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory conditions,
heart disease, diabetes etc. These diseases affect
communities both from the rural and urban areas.
Deaths as a result of these diseases are relatively higher
in rural communities as most of them have limited
access to health care services. The limited access to
health care services by rural communities is due to the
difficulty experienced by governments in bringing those
services to rural communities. Contributing factors to
the difficulty is the inaccessibility of those communities
and shortage of resources such as health professionals.
The authors in this paper share the sentiment that
community health workers can play a major role in
assisting governments to deliver health services to rural
communities regardless of their location. This paper
therefore presents an application that supports health
workers in diagnosing and monitoring noncommunicable
diseases in rural communities.