Principles of Software Engineering for the Cost-Effective Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)

Diabetes is growing increasingly prevalent as a result of changes in people's diets and lifestyles, in addition to increases in income. Self-care on the part of diabetic patients is an essential component of diabetes management. The ability of patients to self-manage their conditions can benefit significantly by assistance provided by other patients. To that aim, the purpose of this paper is to study how Software Engineering and Software Reuse can improve the quality of care as well as the cost-effectiveness of treatment for chronic diseases in Canada, namely Type-2 Diabetes (T2D). In the Hispanic and Latino adolescent population of Sacramento County, the objective of the health education programme known as “Hidratación Saludable” is to bring the rate of the development of type 2 diabetes down to a more manageable level. Teenagers are the beneficiaries, while their parents will make up the audience for this particular message. Finally, the software that was developed was put to use to simulate a randomized controlled trial (RCT), which was done in order to compare the cost-effectiveness of two preventative programs-gym incentive programmers and diabetes prevention programs-against a control group that did not take part in any preventative programmer.