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In Finland, Cardio Vascular Diseases (CVD) made up 41% of all causes of death in 2005. Best of art health IT technologies are not accessible to everyone. Replacing lifestyle and behavior with easy to adopt social routines can also prevent other non-communicable diseases like weight disorders, diabetes, depression, dementia and musculoskeletal illness.
In this paper we present the health-e-living concept: a mobile solution to deliver preventive, educational and promotional health to all citizens comfortable with IT technologies independently of their age or geographical location. The system includes a mobile phone application to collect personal data from sensors related to exercise activity, food intake and moods with minimal user intervention. The data collected is processed by an automatic learning classifier and presented to a nurse capable of instructing for better health behavior and to keep user progress on the targeted track. Health-e-Living uses the metaphor of social networks to improve health habits of persons connected to their support network in real life (family, friends, and colleagues).
The first RCT covered 35-45 year old men with cardiovascular risk factors consenting on being monitored for over 12 weeks. The vitals collected are heart rate, glucose, BMI, blood pressure and emotional state along with daily pictures of their meals. The barriers and facilitators for lifestyle change are assessed during the trial period. The study showed that a generic platform is useful in medical research and protocol pilots. The adoption pattern was not validated for an active aging population segment.
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Martinez, R., Tong, M. (2012). Can Mobile Health Deliver Participatory Medicine to All Citizens in Modern Society?. In: Eriksson-Backa, K., Luoma, A., Krook, E. (eds) Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities. WIS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 313. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32850-3_8
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