scholarly journals Mobile health monitoring based studies for diabetes mellitus: a review

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1405-1414
Author(s):  
Omar AlShorman ◽  
Mahmoud Saleh Masadeh ◽  
Buthaynah AlShorman
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Health ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Safe Technology ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Diabetes Monitoring ◽  
Mobile Health Monitoring

Diabetes as a chronic disease is considered to be a serious problem not only for diabetic patients but also for caregivers, families and countries. Hazardously, as an example, 16% of the Middle East population died every year because of diabetes as it is reported by World Health Organization (WHO). Therefore, it is crucial to utilize the recent advances and technologies to find the best instrument for diabetes monitoring and management. Recently, mobile health (mHealth) technologies have a vital role in the healthcare industrial world. Undoubtedly, mHealth technologies are used to manage, track, monitor, diagnose, and prevent chronic diseases including, diabetes. Certainly, the main advantages of mHealth include a real-time and continuous monitoring with high reliability, accessibility, and availability. In addition to that, mHealth is considered to be a fast, accurate, simple, cheap, comfortable, and safe technology. Hence, the proposed study aims to review existing mHealth studies for managing, diagnosing, tracking, detecting, and predicting diabetic mellitus. Moreover, challenges and future trends of this emerging topic are also discussed.

Perancangan Sistem Informasi “DIAMONS” (Diabetes Monitoring System) Berbasis Internet of Things (IoT)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Endang Sri Rahayu ◽  
Nurul Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Diabetes Monitoring

Diabetes merupakan penyakit “silent killer” yang ditandai dengan peningkatan kadar glukosa darahdan kegagalan sekresi insulin. World Health Organization (WHO) pada tahun 2016 menyatakanbahwa diabetes menduduki urutan ke-6 sebagai penyakit mematikan di Indonesia. Sehingga upayapencegahan dan penanganan diabetes perlu mendapat perhatian yang serius. Internet of Things (IoT)dapat dijadikan sarana penunjang dalam penanganan penyakit diabetes. Inovasi ini memungkinkanperangkat perawatan kesehatan terhubung dengan jaringan internet, sehingga data pasien dapatdiperbaharui dan diakses secara real-time. Selain mempermudah akses, penggunaan IoT juga akanmemberikan nilai tambah pada efisiensi biaya pelayanan kesehatan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untukmerancang software sistem monitoring gula darah berbasis web yang terintegrasi dengan IoT,sehingga pasien dapat melakukan pemeriksaan, konsultasi dengan dokter dan melihat data rekammedis dari jarak jauh. Data hasil pemeriksaan akan disimpan didalam cloud dan ditampilkan secaraonline. Penelitian ini menggunakan Node MCU ESP8266 sebagai mikrokontroller yang telahdilengkapi dengan modul WiFi, Thingspeak sebagai cloud, aplikasi online dengan “Diamons” sebagaidashboard yang mampu menampilkan presentasi data grafis, dibangun dengan bahasa HypertextPreprocessor (PHP) sebagai bahasa pemogramannya. Penelitian ini akan melibatkan pihak medisdalam pengambilan keputusan. Umpan balik yang diberikan kepada pasien berupa anjuran sepertiresep obat, pola makan, dan kegiatan fisik yang harus dilakukan oleh pasien.

scholarly journals EXPLORING COVID-19 VACCINE ACCEPTANCE AND HESITANCY DETERMINANTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Tauheed Zahra ◽  
◽  
Farhan Ahmad Faiz ◽  
Farrah Ahmed ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Background ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
World Health ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Vaccine Acceptance ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low Middle Income Countries ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization recognizes vaccine related myths and conspiracies as the world's top threat to public health safety, particularly in low middle-income countries. The current study aims to explore the beliefs of the general public towards the vaccine acceptance and the hesitancy. The study explicates the COVID 19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy determinants through an in-depth qualitative approach. A total of 30 male and female millennials from different education backgrounds were interviewed through an interview guide. This study reveals that people have different beliefs related to the vaccine authenticity which plays a vital role in the reluctance towards it. Findings from paper is similar to literature that people from good educational background have similar thoughts towards COVID 19 vaccination. Disregard for the vaccine was caused by various factors, such as misinformation, safety concerns, and personal knowledge. This level of distrust was associated with the social worlds that participants experienced during the pandemic. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is a complex relationship that involves the spread of misinformation. Vaccine programs should provide a focused, localized, and empathetic response to counter misinformation. Keywords: COVID-19, vaccines, myths, hesitancy, vaccines awareness, pandemic, conspiracy, corona virus

scholarly journals Assessment of quality of life in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients using World Health Organization quality of life-BREF questionnaire and appraisal of diabetes scale - a cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Supriya Patil ◽  
Yamini Patil ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Patil
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Health Organization

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder that disturbs the quality of life (QOL) of patients. Therefore, evaluation of diabetes- related QOL could be a key outcome measure for its management. This study assessed the QOL in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients using the World Health Organization (WHO) quality of life (QOL)˗BREF questionnaire and disease-specific appraisal of diabetes scale (ADS). In this cross-sectional study, 520 T2DM patients were included. Patients’ demographic data, clinical information was collected through interviews, and the WHOQOL-BREF instrument and ADS were used for the QOL of patients. Statistical analysis was performed by using R software (Version 3.6.0). The mean ADS scores were lower in controlled diabetic subjects (18.50±3.08) and higher in uncontrolled diabetic subjects (19.29±2.73) (P<0.05). For WHOQOL-BREF, the mean scores for all the domains (overall general health, physical, psychological, social, and environmental) were significantly higher in controlled diabetic subjects (P<0.001). In addition, the age, duration of diabetes, associated comorbidities, treatment, and HbA1c level of patients showed a highly significant correlation with WHOQOL-BREF (P<0.001). Diabetic patients had poor-to-average QOL. Therefore, public health measures and education of diabetic patients are essential to create more awareness for improving the QOL of T2DM.

Risk Mortality, prevalence, and possible therapeutics to treat diabetic patients infected with nCOVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumel Ashique ◽  
Navjot K Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Current Potential

: The whole world is facing the current potential life-threatening virus nCOVID-19, the most severe health crisis in the modern era. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the nCOVID-19 as a pandemic in global concern. People with diabetes are not more likely to get nCOVID-19 than the general population. However, nCOVID-19 can cause more severe symptoms and complications in some people living with Diabetes. Older individuals and individuals with previous ailments, (such as diabetes, coronary illness, and asthma) have all the earmarks of being more susceptible to nCOVID-19 infection. People having diabetic condition becomes more challenging to treat against nCOVID-19 due to firstly, the insusceptible systemic undermined, making it harder to battle the infection and likely prompting a more drawn out recuperation period and secondly the infection may flourish in a situation of raised blood glucose. Various therapeutic (anti-diabetic drugs) approaches are available to treat diabetic patients from having nCOVID-19. This review mainly focused on the effect of this virus on type diabetic patients, mortality rate, the mechanism involved, associated complications, and the role of vitamin D, Zn, therapeutics, and prevention procedure.

Comprehending the Role of Physicians and Counterfeit Medicine in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-102
Author(s):  
Farzana Nazera ◽  
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valliappan Raju
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
World Health ◽  
Flow Diagram ◽  
Consultation Service ◽  
Counterfeit Medicine ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicinal Formulation ◽  
Health Organization

Counterfeit medicine is a dangerous problem in Bangladesh which make the country's healthcare system in more challenging. For a developing nation like Bangladesh, it is hard to find a perfect solution to curb this problem. According to the World Health Organization (2021), awareness is the key to prevent innocent patient from taking counterfeit medicine. Due to knowledge gap, it's hard for patients to detect the authenticity of medicine because it requires knowledge of medicinal formulation. Physicians of Bangladesh could play a vital role in preventing this counterfeit medicine problem by establishing guidance co-operation relationship with the patients. The study made a literature review of the concept of counterfeit medicine, conducted a bibliometric analysis of counterfeit medicine on Scopus database and provided a relationship flow diagram of prospective guidance relationship between physicians and patients. The study concluded that, this consultation service should be offered by the physicians to the patients and the study expected that, the patient willingly accepts it for getting the safeguard against counterfeit medicine. Keywords: Bibliometric Analysis, Physicians, Patients, Counterfeit Medicine, Bangladesh

scholarly journals Fabrication of Poly(Glycerol Sebacate)-Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Extrusion-Based Scaffolds for Cartilage Regeneration

2019 ◽  
Vol 890 ◽  
pp. 268-274
Author(s):  
Diana Reis ◽  
Sara Biscaia ◽  
Inês J. Seabra ◽  
Ana Veloso ◽  
Pedro Morouço
Keyword(s):  
Articular Cartilage ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Cartilage Regeneration ◽  
Cartilage Degeneration ◽  
World Health ◽  
Major Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Articular Cartilage Degeneration

Cartilage related diseases are on the top list concerns of the World Health Organization, being the prevention of articular cartilage degeneration a major health matter for which there are few effective solutions. Using an extrusion-based approach and a polyester elastomer it was aimed to produce 3D structures with controlled architecture and with closer mimicry to cartilage native tissue. The obtained constructs demonstrated high reliability, being the addition of poly (glycerol sebacate) a procedure to enhance the properties of the constructs.

scholarly journals Mobile health interventions in developing countries: A systematic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 2792-2810
Author(s):  
Md Rakibul Hoque ◽  
Mohammed Sajedur Rahman ◽  
Nymatul Jannat Nipa ◽  
Md Rashadul Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
World Health ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Health Organization

This study reviews the quality of evidence reported in mobile health intervention literature in the context of developing countries. A systematic search of renowned databases was conducted to find studies related to mobile health applications published between a period of 2013 and 2018. After a methodological screening, a total of 31 studies were included for data extraction and synthesis. The mobile health Evidence Reporting and Assessment checklist developed by the World Health Organization was then used to evaluate the rigor and completeness in evidence reporting. We report several important and interesting findings. First, there is a very low level of familiarity with the mobile health Evidence Reporting and Assessment checklist among the researchers and mobile health intervention designers from developing countries. Second, most studies do not adequately meet the essential criteria of evidence reporting mentioned in the mobile health Evidence Reporting and Assessment checklist. Third, there is a dearth of application of design science–based methods and theory-based frameworks in developing mobile health interventions. Fourth, most of the mobile health interventions are not ready for interoperability and to be integrated into the existing health information systems. Based on these findings, we recommend for robust and inclusive study plans to deliver highly evidence-based reports by mobile health intervention studies that are conducted in the context of developing countries.

scholarly journals Metabolic Syndrome in Rural Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmood Alam Pasha
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Quality Adjusted Life Years ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Proper Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Quality Adjusted Life

According to our observation, prevalence of metabolic syndrome is rising in urban populations as well as rural communities. However, this rising problem is largely being ignored and according to preliminary results quality adjusted life years can be increased by preventing Metabolic Syndrome. The first attempt to give a proper definition of Metabolic Syndrome was done by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998.1 According to WHO criteria metabolic syndrome consists of diabetes mellitus along with any two of the following: BP greater than 140/90 mm Hg, hypertriglyceridemia, decreased HDL, central obesity and microalbumenemia.2 Metabolic syndrome is a major use of morbidity in diabetic patients and medical establishments.

scholarly journals Comparison of Measures adopted to combat COVID 19 Pandemic by different countries in WHO regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2 (Supp)) ◽  
pp. 288-299
Author(s):  
Shubha DB ◽  
Malathesh Undi ◽  
Rachana Annadani ◽  
Ayesha Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Virus Disease ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
World Health ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Health Organization

Since the emergence of Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID 19) in China in December 2019, a lot of significant decisions have been taken by the World Health Organization (WHO) and several countries across the globe. As the world reels under the threat of rapid increase in the number of cases and is planning strategies with the limited information available on the virus, it is essential to learn from the experience of countries across the globe. Hence, we selected a few countries in five WHO regions based on their COVID 19 caseload, management strategies and outcome and compared some of the important measures taken by them to contain the spread of infection. Strategies like extensive testing and contact tracing, strict quarantine and isolation measures, Hospital preparedness, complete restriction of non-essential travel, strict border control measures and social distancing measures play a vital role in containment of the spread. All the countries faced the novel strain of virus and implemented similar strategies as per the guidance of WHO, but the extent of preparedness, swiftness with which the decisions were made and the scale of measures made the difference.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document