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mHealth Innovation in Asia : Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions
Offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and demonstrates how a research focus on diverse Asian contexts influences the success and/or failure of current mHealth initiatives. It also highlights the important roles social scientists can play in advancing theoretical approaches, as well as planning, implementing and evaluating mHealth initiatives. The book is a valuable resource for project planners, policy developers in NGOs and government institutions, as well as academics, researchers and students in the fields of public health, communications and development studies.
Community Health Cares O-Process for Evaluation : A Participatory Approach for Increasing Sustainability
Community Health Care’s O-Process for Evaluation offers step-by-step assistance in achieving these goals, from determining areas for assessment to disseminating the results. The steps can be conducted in-house or adapted for use with outsiders, laying a solid foundation for a cycle of continuous evaluation and continued improvement for long-term sustainability.
Arts and health promotion : Tools and bridges for practice, research, and social transformation
This book offers an overview of the beautiful, powerful, and dynamic array of opportunities to promote health through the arts from theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and critical perspectives. This is the first-known text to connect the disparate inter-disciplinary literatures into a coherent volume for health promotion practitioners, researchers, and teachers. It provides a one-stop depository for using the arts as tools for health promotion in many settings and as bridges across communities, cultures, and sectors.
Architecture for residential care and ageing communities : Spaces for dwelling and healthcare
A guide to the planning, architecture, and design of schools that are healthy, stimulating, and will conserve energy and resources. Written with the needs of architects, construction professionals, educators, and school administration in mind, the book provides a road map for sustainable planning, design, construction, and operations.
Advanced computational intelligence paradigms in healthcare 1
This book presents some of the most recent research results on the applications of computational intelligence in healthcare. The contents include: Information model for management of clinical content State-based model for management of type II diabetes Case-based reasoning in medicine Assessing the quality of care in artificial intelligence environment Electronic medical record to examine physician decisions Multi-agent systems for the management of community healthcare Assistive wheelchair navigation Modelling treatment processes using information extraction Neonatal pain detection using face classification techniques Medical education interfaces using virtual patients The book is directed to the computer scientists, medical practitioners, scientists, professors and students of health science, computer science and related disciplines.
