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Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems

6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, Tampere, Finland, September 16-18, 2016, Proceedings

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Macro Level Considerations of e-Health and Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Tactile Maps - Safety and Usability

      • Stina Ojala, Riitta Lahtinen, Helinä Hirn
      Pages 15-22
    3. Factors Affecting the Availability of Electronic Patient Records for Secondary Purposes – A Case Study

      • Antti Vikström, Sanaz Rahimi Moosavi, Hans Moen, Tapio Salakoski, Sanna Salanterä
      Pages 47-56
    4. Is Home Telemonitoring Feasible in the Care of Chronic Diseases - Insights into Adherence to a Self-management Intervention in Renewing Health Finland Trial

      • Anna-Leena Vuorinen, Miikka Ermes, Tuula Karhula, Katja Rääpysjärvi, Jaakko Lähteenmäki
      Pages 57-66
  3. Welfare Issues of Children, Youth, Young Elderly and Seniors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Pre-studies on Using Digital Games for the Elderly’s Physical Activities

      • Aung Pyae, Mika Luimula, Jouni Smed
      Pages 82-96
    3. Senior Citizens Experience of Barriers to Information About Healthy Behaviour

      • Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Sigríður Björk Einarsdóttir
      Pages 97-113
    4. Participative Game Design in the Zet Project – Engaging the Youth to Enhance Wellbeing

      • Hanna Tuohimaa, Ville Kankainen, Tarja Meristö, Jukka Laitinen
      Pages 126-135
  4. Analytics Issues of e-Health and Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. An Assessment to Toxicological Risk of Pesticide Exposure

      • Cristina Coelho, M. Rosário Martins, Nelson Lima, Henrique Vicente, José Neves
      Pages 139-150
    3. Classification of Brain Tumor MRIs Using a Kernel Support Vector Machine

      • Mahmoud Khaled Abd-Ellah, Ali Ismail Awad, Ashraf A. M. Khalaf, Hesham F. A. Hamed
      Pages 151-160
  5. National/Regional Initiatives in e-Health and Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2016, held in Tampere, Finland, in September 2016.

The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. With the core topic "Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems" WIS 2016 focused on innovations and fresh ideas in the cross-section of urban living, information society and health as understood in a wide sense. The papers presented in this volume are organized along the following seven broad topics: 1. Macro level considerations of e-health and welfare, 2.Welfare issues of children, youth, young elderly and seniors, 3. Analytics issues of eHealth and welfare, 4. National/regional initiatives in eHealth and welfare, and 5. Specific topics of eHealth. The papers in these topics span qualitative and quantitative analysis, empirical surveys, case studies as well as conceptual work.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Hongxiu Li, Reima Suomi

  • University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Pirkko Nykänen

  • Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  • Åbo Academi University, Turku, Finland

    Gunilla Widén, Ming Zhan

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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