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A new track for technology: Can ICT take care for healthier lifestyles?
Baum, Peter - 2011
challenges caused by demographics and lifestyle. From the current convergence of mhealth, and sport market products emerge … targeting normal athletes to control their training in a quantified manner. The resulting feedback and transparency foster a … healthier lifestyle. These products and services help overcome limitations to innovation typical to the health care market. The …
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A new track for technology : can ICT take care for healthier lifestyles?
Baum, Peter - 2011
Personal Health/Care services. -- eHealth ; Integrated Personal Health/Care services ; sport ; training ; lifestyle related … challenges caused by demographics and lifestyle. From the current convergence of mhealth, and sport market products emerge … targeting normal athletes to control their training in a quantified manner. The resulting feedback and transparency foster a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374705
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THE INTERNET – MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION OF THE VIRTUAL MEDICAL WORLD
D, Assist. Adina Bălan Ph. - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 2 (2010) 38, pp. 15-15
In the world of health care, most specialists appreciate information and communication as a major component in this area. Thus, the Internet becomes also in health - the main source of information and communication of professionals in the system, facilitating access to databases, electronic...
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A statistical study of health literacy at a university in Jiangsu, China
Xinmeng, Ye; Si, Tian; Fangrong, Ren - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 8 (2019) 3, pp. 205-222
This paper aims to understand students' health literacy condition at a university in Jiangsu Province by determining possible influencing factors, and to give suggestions to improve health literacy education. A total of 165 first, second, and third-year students completed the Mandarin Health...
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Fachkräftemangel in der Pflege: Kritische Situationsbewertung und Skizzierung einer Handlungsalternative
Watzka, Klaus - 2018
Das Bundeskabinett hat am 01.08.2018 das Pflegepersonal-Stärkungsgesetz beschlossen. Unter anderem ist darin die Einstellung von 13.000 zusätzlichen Pflegefachkräften vorgesehen. Angesichts der derzeitigen Mangelsituation in diesem Berufsfeld bestehen starke Zweifel, ob diese Stellen adäquat...
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Improving the employment rates of people with disabilities through vocational education
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Polidano, Cain - 2011
During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in...
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Measuring Changes in Multidimensional Inequality - An Empirical Application
Nilsson, Therese - 2007
During the past decade there has been a growing opinion of including more than an income perspective in the examination of inequality. As a result a broad theoretical literature on the subject of multidimensional inequality is present. This can mainly be divided into three different parts:...
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Smith, Nina - 2013
Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties...
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Ageing and skills : a review and analysis of skill gain and skill loss over the lifespan and over time
Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2012
The relationship between ageing and skills is becoming an important policy issue, not least in the context of population ageing. Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will potentially add considerably to the understanding of the relationship...
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