scholarly journals Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Wireless Health: Enabling Technologies and Applications

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
S. M. Riazul Islam ◽  
Jaime Lloret ◽  
Yousaf Bin Zikria

Wireless health is transforming health care by integrating wireless technologies into conventional medicine, including the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of illness [...]

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne ◽  
Mohan Krishna Kagita ◽  
Thippa Reddy Gadekallu

Author(s):  
Balaji V R ◽  
Dinesh Kumar J R ◽  
A. Arivarasan ◽  
J. Karthick Raja ◽  
P. Chidambaram

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1270-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Szilvia Zörgő ◽  
Olga L. Olivas Hernández

Introduction: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use has been increasing in the past decades in tandem with changes regarding the notions of health and illness. Comparing conventional medicine (CM) and CAM in how they address health problems has been a point of focus for both the health sciences and individuals dealing with health problems. Various social, cultural, political, economic, and personal factors play a role in whether different health approaches are integrated or not when addressing illness experiences. Methods: The qualitative study comprised semistructured interviews (N = 9) and participant observation involving 105 patients conducted between January 2015 and May 2017 at 4 clinics of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Budapest, Hungary. Code structures were created inductively with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results: The mutually exclusive view of CM/CAM use occurred due to loss of trust in the doctor-patient relationship causing problems in communication, and also as a result of the patient espousing certain cultural dispositions. Significant dispositions included a preference for the “natural” and psychologization, the latter often manifested in psychosocial etiology, vitalism, and illness symbolism. Discussion: A polarized choice of therapy may occur as a result of a competitive health care market in which medical modalities and their underlying cultural systems compete within a global milieu of information proliferation and a hybridization of individual worldviews. Through a process of “cultural creolization”, changing concepts of health and illness create varying patient expectations and meanings regarding illness, which in turn affect therapy choice as well. Conclusion: Mirrored in the articulation of an individual’s illness trajectory is a tension that is also reflected in the struggles in the health care system to more adequately understand health/illness processes from a pluralistic perspective. The power relations in the health arena (among CAM/CM practitioners and systems) play a role in legitimizing or undermining different health practices, which as consequence affects the possibility of integrating them into the processes of care. Thus, therapy choice is not only linked to changing notions of health and illness, but also to shifting conceptualizations of self, identity, and the practitioner-patient relationship.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhibo Pang ◽  
Lirong Zheng ◽  
Junzhe Tian ◽  
Sharon Kao-Walter ◽  
Elena Dubrova ◽  
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