eHealth and mHealth in Workplace Health Promotion: Usefulness and Perspectives
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 6004
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Interests: mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of xenobiotics, asbestiform fibers and radiation; work organizations; ergonomics; psycho-physical wellbeing; health promotion in the workplace
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Interests: occupational medicine; occupational epidemiology; workplace health promotion
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Interests: big data; bioinformatics; artificial intelligence
Interests: bioinformatics; data analysis; machine learning; artificial intelligence; genomics; transcriptomics
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Dear Colleagues,
The possibilities for improving treatment as well as preventing diseases have been significantly enhanced by the rapid developments in electronic media and mobile technology capabilities.
By eHealth, we usually mean electronic health. This implies the use and analysis of data for managing and storing medical records without using paper files. mHealth refers to mobile health, as well as the practice of medication plus healthcare mobile devices, computers, PDAs, and tablets. The mHealth field has recently witnessed growth as an industry, mainly due to widespread usage of these devices in advanced countries and the easy accessibility of mobile technology.
Currently, a large number of eHealth tools are available in all areas of health promotion, including applications for sports, weight reduction, and healthy nutrition as well as applications addressing psychological factors (e.g., to reduce stress or burnout, enhance recovery and coping strategies, or learn new competencies and skills). While current eHealth and mHealth tools strongly focus on changing individual attitudes and behaviour, they rarely concentrate on improvement of the working environment, such as through analysing and changing working conditions. Supporting the workplace health promotion (WHP) process (including analysis of the current state, intervention development process, intervention implementation, and further activities) is even less well-addressed in the currently developed eHealth and mHealth tools. Therefore, solutions in the field of eHealth and mHealth for WHP should strongly converge on targeting the whole WHP process, and especially on improving the working environment.
Prof. Dr. Venerando Rapisarda
Prof. Dr. Caterina Ledda
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Pulvirenti
Dr. Salvatore Alaimo
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