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Use of Smart Phones to Improve the Human Factors Engineering of People Suffering from Chronic Diseases

Author : Salah A. M. Elshourbagy

Published in: Advances in The Human Side of Service Engineering

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Smartphone play an important role in our lives as well as they have become an integral part of the basic elements in the work environment. Our work deals with the services presents in the media of health care, as a Smartphone user of patients who have the ability to influence the health issues of people suffer from chronic diseases. Chronic diseases may cause heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, depression, diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, oral diseases, arthritis and osteoporosis its effect the ability of human for working and studying. Services provided by using the smart phone has become indispensable to human life, whether family relation, commercial, industrial, bank transfer, emergency and accidents. The results crucially appeared that Smartphone playing pivotal role in the assistance of people suffer from chronic diseases.

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Metadata
Title
Use of Smart Phones to Improve the Human Factors Engineering of People Suffering from Chronic Diseases
Author
Salah A. M. Elshourbagy
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41947-3_9

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