Be He@lthy Be Mobile
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Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9240033475
Author :
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9240033475
Author :
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9240042377
Myopia represents an important public health issue in the 21st century, affecting an estimated 2.6 billion people in 2020. In the context of the Be He@lthy Be Mobile initiative, the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunication Union have developed the MyopiaEd initiative. The initiative aims to support policy- and decision-makers and implementers to develop, implement and monitor large scale mHealth initiatives targeting (i) improving awareness and health literacy of the importance of regular eye examinations and spectacle compliance amongst children and adults, and (ii) supporting behaviour change that contributes to delay the age of onset, and slow the progression of myopia, the two main predictors of developing high degrees of myopia (and its associated complications) in later life. This toolkit includes evidence-based message libraries for a range of population end-user groups, along with operational guidance and resources to support implementation of the initiative.
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Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9789290225225
Be He@lthy, Be Mobile (BHBM) is a global mobile health (mHealth) initiative, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).. It assists governments in using mobile technology to address priority health topics and reinforce existing national health activities to prevent, manage and treat health conditions and diseases.
Author : Marijn Sax
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9403537922
Popular health apps are commercial services. Despite the promise of empowerment they offer, the tensions introduced by their data-driven, dynamically adjustable digital environments engender a potential for manipulation to which their designers and operators can easily succumb. In this important book, the author develops an ethical framework to evaluate the commercial practices of for-profit health apps, proceeding to a detailed proposal of how to legally address the exploitation, for financial gain, of users’ need for health. Focusing on the intricate tracking of users over time, coupled with the possibility to personalize the environment based on knowledge gained from tracking, the book’s in-depth analysis of popular for-profit health apps engages with such particulars as the following: the strategic framing of health in health apps; the cultural tendency to presume we are unhealthy until we have proven we are healthy; the key concepts of autonomy, vulnerability, trust, and manipulation; how health apps develop ongoing profitable relationships with users; and use of misleading and aggressive commercial practices. The author argues that the European Union’s Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, when informed by ethical considerations, offers promising legal solutions to the manipulation concerns raised by popular for-profit health apps. The book will be welcomed not only for its incisive scrutiny of the health app phenomenon but also for the light it sheds on the wider problems inherent in the digital society—what digital environments know about their users, how they use that knowledge, and for which purpose. Its progress from an ethical approach to legal solutions will recommend the book to lawyers concerned with business practices, human resources professionals, policymakers, and academics interested in the intersection of ethics and law.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2018-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241514124
Author : Andrew Beaumont
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2024-10-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1394237693
Author : Carla Lanca
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 283250356X
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
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ISBN : 9264484582
Almost one in four people in OECD countries is currently obese. This epidemic has far-reaching consequences for individuals, society and the economy. Using microsimulation modelling, this book analyses the burden of obesity and overweight in 52 countries (including OECD, European Union and G20 countries), showing how overweight reduces life expectancy, increases healthcare costs, decreases workers' productivity and lowers GDP.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2017
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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
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ISBN : 9264915222
In the 30 years since the inception of the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS), Brazil has reduced health inequalities, and improved coverage and access to health care. However, mobilising sufficient financing for the universal health coverage mandate of SUS has been a constant challenge, not helped by persistent inefficiencies in the use of resources in the Brazilian health system.