TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy apps
T2 - Mobile devices for continuous monitoring and intervention
AU - Spring, Bonnie
AU - Gotsis, Marientina
AU - Paiva, Ana
AU - Spruijt-Metz, Donna
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - It is now known that nearly half of the toll that illness takes in developed countries is linked to four unhealthy behaviors: smoking, excess alcohol intake, poor diet, and physical inactivity. These common risk behaviors cause preventable, delayed illness that then manifests as chronic disease, requiring extended medical care with associated financial costs. Chronic disease already accounts for 75% of U.S. health-care costs, foreshadowing an unsustainable financial burden for the aging population [1]. We are facing an urgent need to re-engineer health systems to improve public health through behavior change, and technology-supported behavioral change interventions will be a part of 21st-century health care. As new technical capabilities to observe behavior continuously in context make it possible to tailor interventions in real time, the way we understand and try to influence behavior will change fundamentally.
AB - It is now known that nearly half of the toll that illness takes in developed countries is linked to four unhealthy behaviors: smoking, excess alcohol intake, poor diet, and physical inactivity. These common risk behaviors cause preventable, delayed illness that then manifests as chronic disease, requiring extended medical care with associated financial costs. Chronic disease already accounts for 75% of U.S. health-care costs, foreshadowing an unsustainable financial burden for the aging population [1]. We are facing an urgent need to re-engineer health systems to improve public health through behavior change, and technology-supported behavioral change interventions will be a part of 21st-century health care. As new technical capabilities to observe behavior continuously in context make it possible to tailor interventions in real time, the way we understand and try to influence behavior will change fundamentally.
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U2 - 10.1109/MPUL.2013.2279620
DO - 10.1109/MPUL.2013.2279620
M3 - Article
C2 - 24233190
AN - SCOPUS:84888190024
SN - 2154-2287
VL - 4
SP - 34
EP - 40
JO - IEEE Pulse
JF - IEEE Pulse
IS - 6
M1 - 6656985
ER -