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Strategic Innovations and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Telecommunications and Networking
An evolutionary medicine regulative process in which assessment of fitness and economic-type cost–benefit analysis determines the body’s regulation of its physiology and health.
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Thinking eHealth: Empowering for Wellbeing With Health Monitoring Systems
Izabella V. Lokshina (SUNY Oneonta, USA) and Michael R. Bartolacci (Pennsylvania State University – Berks, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8188-8.ch015
Abstract
This chapter explains eHealth; discusses experiences, health management strategies, and healthcare models to address overweight and obesity in young population; and focuses on mathematical background of individual health status monitoring system to empower young people to manage their health. The proposed system uses symptoms observed with mobile sensing devices to define individual physical and psychological status. It has flexible logical inference system providing positive psychological influence on young people since full acceptance of recommendations towards healthy lifestyles is reached and correct interpretation is guaranteed. Models and algorithms are developed based on the composition inference rule in fuzzy logic that makes health status identification process faster and obtained results more precise and efficient comparing to traditional identification algorithms.
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The Healthcare Strategic Practice in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Health management is considered a specialized branch of administrative and health sciences. Health Management is a social applied science that combines a combination of business administration, public administration, medical science, public health, epidemiology, health policy, health systems science, and other health management sciences such as health research, scientific research, health planning and health education, and health program evaluation.
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