Authors:
George Drosatos
;
Kyriakos Bakirlis
;
Pavlos Efraimidis
and
Eleni Kaldoudi
Affiliation:
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Keyword(s):
eHealth, Personal Health Systems, Risk Factors, Healthy Behaviour, Lifestyle Related Disease, Mobile Application, Privacy by Design.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Health
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, chronic cardiorenal and respiratory disease and cancer, are serious, burdensome and costly conditions that share a common characteristic: they heavily depend on common behavioural risk factors, such as physical activity, diet, stress, and substance abuse. Despite concerted efforts it has been remarkably difficult to change such lifestyle related disease determinants, as behavioural change is a complex process requiring significant personal responsibility. In this paper we propose a personal mobile eHealth application to communicate personalized lifestyle related health risks and understand their individual impact on personal health condition and disease progression.