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Mobile Applications towards Prevention and Management of Chronic Diseases

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Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability, and poses a major burden to heathcare systems in Australia and other western countries. To alleviate this burden, we developed three mobile phone based solutions to address primary and secondary prevention of the leading chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. This paper focuses on how the mobile solutions could address the clinical problems, and briefly discusses some of the preliminary findings.

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  1. RBWH, The Australian e-Health Research Centre, Level 5, UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16, Herston, QLD, 4029, Australia

    Hang Ding, Marlien Varnfield & Mohan Karunanithi

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  1. School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng

  2. College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, 110819, Shenyang, China

    Guoren Wang

  3. Aarhus University, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen

  4. Center for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, 8001, VIC, Australia

    Guandong Xu

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Ding, H., Varnfield, M., Karunanithi, M. (2012). Mobile Applications towards Prevention and Management of Chronic Diseases. In: Sheng, Q.Z., Wang, G., Jensen, C.S., Xu, G. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7235. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29253-8_79

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