Blockchain Application with Health Token in Medical & Health Industrials

The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the importance and necessity of bringing together the considerations of language and reproduction. While other topics of sexuality have aroused interest in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, the ideas, practices, and experiences of human reproduction, notably pregnancy, remain understudied. At the same time, a discussion of language has been largely absent from the anthropology of reproduction, which has emerged in the last twenty years as an especially vibrant area of cultural and social study. The chapter examines the metaphors and discourses or the “talk about” reproduction; the interactions and “talk between” people, like pregnant women and medical health care providers, which shapes the ordinary experiences of reproduction; the “talk to” parties (specifically, fetuses and imagined children) who themselves become constituted through talk; and reproduction as literacy event or one that is mediated and experienced in relation to texts. It is asserted that language is a practice of reproduction.

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The information needs and behaviour of the Egyptian elderly living in care homes: An exploratory study

IFLA Journal ◽

10.1177/0340035221991563 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 034003522199156

Author(s):

Essam Mansour

Keyword(s):

Elderly People ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Information Needs ◽

Information Sources ◽

Care Homes ◽

Average Income ◽

Information Awareness ◽

Medical Health ◽

Types Of Information ◽

Elderly Living

The purpose of this study is to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of the Egyptian elderly, including their information needs. A sample of 63 elderly people living in care homes was taken. It was divided into five focus groups. Of the 63 elderly people, 40 were men (63.5%) and 23 women (36.5%). Almost half (47.6%) ranged in aged from 61 to 70. About a quarter (23%) of them held a high school diploma. The highest percentage (28.6%) was labelled as average-income people. The highest percentage (60.3%) was also found to be widows or widowers. The types of information used most by the Egyptian elderly related to physical, medical/health, social, rational and recreational needs. Their information sources varied between formal and informal sources. Nearly two-thirds (63.5%) of them showed that limited knowledge, lack of interest, poor information awareness, aging, loneliness and health problems were the most significant obstacles they faced when seeking information.

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Tianxia120: A Multimodal Medical Data Collection Bioinformatic System for Proactive Health Management in Internet of Medical Things

Journal of Healthcare Engineering ◽

10.1155/2020/8828738 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Zihan Jiao ◽

Yindong Xiao ◽

Yanmei Jin ◽

Xinyu Chen ◽

Xiwei Huang

Keyword(s):

Health Management ◽

Cold Chain ◽

Passive Mode ◽

Electronic Prescription ◽

One Step ◽

Internet Of Medical Things ◽

Medical Health ◽

Rich Data ◽

Medical Disciplines ◽

Medical Data Collection

A digital medical health system named Tianxia120 that can provide patients and hospitals with “one-step service” is proposed in this paper. Evolving from the techniques of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), medical dig data, and medical Artificial Intelligence, the system can systematically promote the change of service status between doctors and patients from “passive mode” to “proactive mode” and realize online service that is similar to offline medical treatment scenarios. The system consists of a patient terminal and a doctor terminal. They can perform online inquiry (through graphic, voice, telephone, video, etc.), electronic prescription, multiparameter self-diagnosis, cold chain logistics, medicine distribution, etc. The system can provide rich medical health information, medical tools browsing, and health care big data aggregation processing functions. Compared with the traditional medical system, this system has the characteristics of full function, rich data, and high security. It is expected to be applied to hospital applications and medical research to promote the construction and innovation of clinical medical disciplines.

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