YouCare

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Inspiration

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder that affects 5-10% of the female population due to an imbalance of hormones. Women that experience PCOS have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, anxiety, and depression. Like a lot of women's disorders, it’s common for PCOS to receive a delayed or no diagnosis at all due to lack of awareness of PCOS symptoms and the wide-range of symptoms. As a consequence, many women unknowingly suffer from the health risks without proper treatment.

We have developed an application for the You.com search engine that compares your health data with information about women's health from your searches, allowing you to monitor your health status and identify potential indicators of PCOS.

What it does

When you search anything related to women’s sexual and reproductive health, our application pops up with 3 key features: (1) providing comprehensive information on PCOS by web scrapping, (2) comparing these symptoms with information from your health app, (3) donation feature that allows you to contribute to organizations dedicated to providing resources to women with the condition.

How we built it

Using You.com's Developer Dashboard, we utilized their editor to design the user interface, incorporating two APIs for personalized health data and generalized PCOS information. Furthermore, we integrated checkbook.io to enable donations directly to community organizations just with payee info!

Challenges we ran into

We encountered challenges while incorporating the API into the You.com codebase, primarily due to the limitations of the "Form" components and difficulties placing components precisely as desired. Additionally, the integration of Checkbook.io was challenging due to the steps involved with user authentication and bank account creation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The donation app tile is fully functional and we can track the donations given by the user through email and the Sandbox environment.

What we learned

We learned about how to create and integrate APIs, front-end development using You.com, and functionality of HTTP POST and GET methods while deepening our knowledge of PCOS and its impact on women's health.

What's next for YouCare

We aim to expand this tool to include more topics in women's health like STDs, pregnancy and sex education, each with their unique features to improve awareness. It’s capabilities can further develop to address all queries that deal with women’s health like providing advice on topics related to women's health, like periods or menstrual products. For instance, it can show you a summary of your cycle and suggest products that might be useful for you, and physicians you should consider etc.

Built With

• checkbook.io
• you.com