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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Personal health"”.
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Handheld computer for personal health advice
… design, implement and evaluate a portable personal health advisor. The system would integrate data from various sources and handheld computers on a real-time basis to provide "advice" (intelligent and knowledge) anytime and anywhere so that a consumer can take practical and immediate …
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On the Ethical Implications of Personal Health Monitoring
… technologies capable of remotely monitoring the health and behaviours of individuals to detect, manage and prevent health problems. Known collectively as personal health monitoring (PHM), these systems are intended to supplement medical care with health monitoring outside traditional care …
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Personal Health Record: Is It a Realistic Expectation?
A personal health record (PHR) provides an avenue for patients to track their personal health information, such as doctors' visits, medications, allergies, lab results, surgeries, etc. This allows patients to provide a complete and accurate health profile to their health care professionals, which …
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Utilization of personal health informatics through intermediary users
Personal informatics are important tools in health self-management as they support individuals to quantify and self-reflect on their lifestyle. Human-computer interaction researchers have devoted resources on studying how to design such tools. Various motivational strategies have been explored for …
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Personal health benefits of pervasive computing and feedback
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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The Effects of Personal Health Assessments on Health Knowledge and Health Behavior Among Students Enrolled in an Undergraduate Personal Health Course
… of this research was to determine whether personal health assessments would increase Personal Health 100 students' health knowledge and healthy behaviors. This research is important because of the objectives set by Healthy People 2000 to promote health and because of the need for …
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An agent based framework for sharing personal health information
… commercial vendors have started providing Personal Health Record (PHR) services. The PHR has been developed to be consumer-centric such that the consumer has all the control and not the health care provider. PHRs can be created, accessed and shared by a patient with authorized persons with …
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Clustering and comparing information extracted from personal health messages
… daily life. When it comes to the medicine and healthcare domain, a series of good online services such as Yahoo! Groups,WebMD and Med- Help, offer patients and physicians a good platform to discuss health problems, e.g., diseases and drugs, diagnoses and treatments, which also provide a large …
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A Comparison of Health Risk Behaviors Among College Students Enrolled in a Required Personal Health Course vs. Enrolled in an Elective Personal Health Course
Information on the overall health risk behaviors of college students is limited and it is unknown if being enrolled in an elective or a required health course affects behavior change among the students. There are mixed reports on whether or not health education courses affect behavior change. …
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Inner view and net weight : environments for personal health exploration
Health monitoring technology is going to change the way health care and health awareness work. While there are many monitoring systems and technologies on the market or under research, few of these systems or technologies provide both the ability to communicate their data to broader infrastructures …
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My Diabetes My Way: an electronic personal health record for NHS Scotland
… shift power towards the patient, with electronic personal health records (PHRs) identified as an ideal method of delivery. In December 2010, a new service was launched in MDMW, allowing patients across Scotland access to their shared electronic record. The following thesis aims to identify and …
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Narratives of Personal Health and Sexual Education of Emerging Adults with Disabilities
… out of classrooms that discuss any amount of personal health and sexual education. Research on the disabled population is filled with samples of non-disabled individuals imposing their opinions for a population that they do not belong to. The purpose of this study was to understand how …
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Diffusion of personal health information : self-determining and empowering practices for Manitoba Inuit
… when defining and communicating electronic health concepts and personal health information services to urban Inuit audiences. Applying a two-eyed seeing model to build on and describe contextual meanings for Western and Inuit versions of health information and information communication …
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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A HEALTHY BODIES CURRICULUM MODULE FOR COLLEGE PERSONAL HEALTH
Health curriculum traditionally (re)produces obesity discourse, a fusion of biomedical and moral perspectives of weight and fat. This weight-centered approach to bodies may perpetuate weight stigmatization, indirectly supports a culture of thinness, and contradicts other health messages concerning …
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Smart Remote Personal Health Monitoring System: Addressing Challenges of Missing and Conflicting Data
… excellent candidates for monitoring patients’ health status and disease state, for predicting patients’ response to treatment, for alerting extraordinary, acute, or emergency events, for analyzing and managing large datasets, and for preventing disease progression and symptom manifestation. …
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Interaction design and healthcare : a mobile experience for engaging with personal health records
One of the innate challenges of primary healthcare is the transfer of information from expert to patient, the root of a myriad of problems relating to medical noncompliance and suboptimal care. The constant challenge for patients to understand and act on the medical data they receive brings to …
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The effect of shiftwork on dietary intake and personal health perspective of nurses
… and meal patterns, schedule satisfaction, and health satisfaction between nurses who work a permanent day shift (controls), and nurses who work alternate schedules. Subjects were selected from four hospitals: a large urban military hospital, a small military hospital located on a southern army …
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