Glossary
- Connected health:
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Health care through the use of technology
- mHealth:
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Mobile health
- Mobile fitness apps:
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Mobile fitness applications used from a smartphone or website
Definition
Over three quarters of US health care spending goes to the care of people with chronic conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and asthma, while in 2004, nearly half of the Americans were diagnosed with one or more chronic conditions, a number expected to increase dramatically as the baby boomer generation rapidly approaches their retirement age (Accenture 2009). The new reality, dubbed “Connected Health,” incorporates a broad range of health and fitness applications that are always on, always active, and always aware (Accenture 2009).
Since many aspects of health promotion professionals involve interdependent actors, social networks are of increasing interest to health services researchers (O’Malley and Marsden 2008). The creation of a social network map of a person’s social network can help...
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Vickey, T., Breslin, J. (2018). Social Networks for Quantified Self. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_344
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