S.A.R.A.H.
06.04.2024
S.A.R.A.H.
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Why in the news?
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the launch of S.A.R.A.H., a digital health promoter prototype.
About S.A.R.A.H.:
- Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health (S.A.R.A.H.) is a digital health promoter prototype with enhanced empathetic response powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI).
- It is launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It aims to provide an additional tool for people to realize their rights to health, wherever they are.
Features of S.A.R.A.H.:
- It is trained to provide information across major health topics, including healthy habits and mental health
- It has the ability to support people in developing better understanding of risk factors for some of the leading causes of death in the world, including cancer, heart disease.
- It can help people access up-to-date information on quitting tobacco, being active, eating a healthy diet and de-stressing among other things.
- It can engage users 24 hours a day in 8 languages on multiple health topics, on any device. It is now powered by generative AI rather than a pre-set algorithm or script helping her to provide more accurate responses in real-time.
The World Health Organization
- It came into effect on April 7, 1948.
- It is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is responsible for international public health.
- The WHO's mission is to achieve health for all people.
- It states that health is a human right that every human being is entitled to, without distinction of race, religion, or political belief, an individual’s economic or social condition.
- It also states that the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security.
- The WHO’s headquarters is based in Geneva, Switzerland with six regional and 150 country offices across the world.
- It is a democratic organization with a role to guide the response, develop guidance, but not to go into a country to help address a specific health threat.
Source: Financial Express