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Mobile Sensors and Wearable Technology

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The recent surge of innovative approaches to improve health has garnered a lot of public interest and become a major frontrunner in the consumer technology market. With this gaining momentum, wearable devices to measure individuals’ physiology such as heart rate and activity levels have become highly popular, increasingly pervasive, and are creating a cultural shift to help people to collect, quantify, and observe their own data relating to their behaviours in day-to-day life. This “quantified self” can increase self-awareness regarding their behaviour and impact positively on their overall health and well-being (Swan 2009). With the potential to change health behaviour through these platforms, the general public has the ability to be more engaged and participatory in their own health.

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  1. University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Christopher A. Yao & Kendall Ho

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  1. Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

  2. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Viktoria Stein

  3. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Nicholas Goodwin

  4. Health Policy Research and Planning, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Ran Balicer

  5. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Ellen Nolte

  6. Workforce Research & Evaluation, Alberta Health Services Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Esther Suter

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Yao, C.A., Ho, K. (2017). Mobile Sensors and Wearable Technology. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Goodwin, N., Balicer, R., Nolte, E., Suter, E. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56103-5_7

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