Research Article
Empowering the Citizen in the Main Pillars of Health by Using IoT
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-76066-3_4, author={Meritxell G\^{o}mez-Mart\^{\i}nez and Silvia Orte and Laura Ros-Freixedes and Kian Seif and Eloisa Vargiu}, title={Empowering the Citizen in the Main Pillars of Health by Using IoT}, proceedings={Wearables in Healthcare. Second EAI International Conference, HealthWear 2020, Virtual Event, December 10-11, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={HEALTHWEAR}, year={2021}, month={5}, keywords={Healthy habits Citizen empowerment Physical activity Nutrition Sleeping activity Activity monitoring Recommender system}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-76066-3_4} }- Meritxell Gómez-Martínez
Silvia Orte
Laura Ros-Freixedes
Kian Seif
Eloisa Vargiu
Year: 2021
Empowering the Citizen in the Main Pillars of Health by Using IoT
HEALTHWEAR
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76066-3_4
Abstract
To live longer, healthier, and more active, people at any age have to follow simple and clear suggestions that cover the 3 main pillars of health: physical activity, nutrition, and sleeping. Unfortunately, due to the intrinsic (e.g., daily-life habits) and extrinsic (e.g., environmental change) factors, people are far to have a healthy life and, thus, there is an increase of chronic diseases, mental disorders, and premature death. Approaches to increase citizen empowerment vary from self-management programs to those for promoting citizen (especially patients) involvement in treatment shared decision-making, to those to facilitating also the clinician-patient cooperation, when required. This paper presents the approach followed in CarpeDiem, an IoT-based system focused on self-management as a way to engage and empower citizens in order to improve their quality of life, to allow a better follow-up by clinicians in case of patients or elderly people, and to improve training in case of sportsmen.
