u-Health for Management of Chronic Diseases: Physical Activity and Therapeutic Exercise.
10.5124/jkma.2009.52.12.1154
- Author:
Eun Hi CHOI
1
;
Jeong Yeol SEO
Author Information
1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Korea. ceh@hallym.or.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Chronic disease;
Physical activity;
Life style;
u-Health;
u-Health medical fitness system
- MeSH:
Aging;
Aluminum Hydroxide;
Carbonates;
Chronic Disease;
Compliance;
Decision Making;
Humans;
Life Expectancy;
Life Style;
Motor Activity;
Organothiophosphorus Compounds;
Social Problems;
Stress, Psychological
- From:Journal of the Korean Medical Association
2009;52(12):1154-1163
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Recently, the aging society is facing with the rapid increase of chronic diseases. Despite the advanced medical technology, chronic diseases have not comprehensively managed yet. In the modern society, many people have to spend their extended life span suffering from chronic diseases and disabilities, and also a huge medical cost has emerged as a serious social problem. With IT improvement, u-health system has been developed to link home and medical service systems by arranging medical data, decision making and medical guidelines for various situations. It can promote the therapeutic compliance for the patients with chronic diseases. And also for the medical service providers, it can provide useful data to make an accurate medical decision. As we know, the chronic disease is caused by inactivity and the management of chronic disease requires the modification of inactive life style. U-health medical fitness system can not only prescribe proper activity to control the chronic disease but also it can monitor the patients' physical activity in everyday life. By the successful management of chronic diseases based on u-health system, we want to achieve the expansion of disease-free and disability-free life expectancy and a solution to reduce the burden of medical expenses in modern society eventually.
