Rethinking Health: ICT-Enabled Services to Empower People to Manage Their Health
- 1 November 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 4, 119-139
- https://doi.org/10.1109/rbme.2011.2174217
Abstract
Lifestyle is a key determinant in the prevention and management of chronic diseases. If we would exercise regularly, eat healthy, control our weight, sleep enough, manage stress, not smoke and use alcohol only moderately, 90% of type II diabetes, 80% of coronary heart disease, and 70% of stroke could be prevented. Health statistics show that lifestyle related diseases are increasing at an alarming rate. Public health promotion campaigns and healthcare together are not effective enough to stop this "tsunami". The solution that is offered is to empower people to manage their health with the assistance of ICT-enabled services. A lot of R&D and engineering effort is being invested in Personal Health Systems. Although some progress has been made, the market for such systems has not yet emerged. The aim of this critical review is to identify the barriers which are holding back the growth of the market. It looks into the theoretical foundations of behavior change support, the maturity of the technologies for behavior change support, and the business context in which behavior change support systems are used.Keywords
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