Open AccessBeyond Disease: Technologies for Health Promotion
Author(s) -
Holden Richard J.,
Valdez Rupa S.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the international symposium of human factors and ergonomics in healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2327-8595
DOI - 10.1177/2327857919081014
Subject(s) - health promotion , health care , usability , wearable computer , promotion (chess) , process (computing) , work (physics) , disease , psychology , medicine , nursing , computer science , public health , engineering , political science , human–computer interaction , mechanical engineering , operating system , pathology , politics , law , embedded system
Health promotion is defined by the World Health Organization as “the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health.” This is different from the bulk of formal healthcare processes, which are characterized by the treatment of an established disease. Much important human factors research and practice has been done to improve the healthcare delivery process and increasingly human factors professionals are also involved in work on health promotion. Such work has included examining the use and usability of wearable fitness tracking devices, studies of online health information seeking by healthy individuals, and human factors research on social robots for older adults, to name but a few examples. We discuss human factors applications in health promotion, focusing on examples from technology-related research.
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