• DocumentCode
    621894
  • Title

    An intelligent health assistant for migrants

  • Author

    Plumbaum, Till ; Narr, Sascha ; Schwartze, Veit ; Hopfgartner, Frank ; Albayrak, Sahin

  • Author_Institution
    Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    5-8 May 2013
  • Firstpage
    307
  • Lastpage
    308
  • Abstract
    Preventive health is becoming an increasingly important part of our society. In addition to improving people´s personal well being, another positive effect is the reduction of costs for medical treatments that put a high burden on individuals and health care providers. Despite these advantages, preventive health services are still not used at a desired level. This is especially true for people with a migration background, since linguistic or cultural barriers prevent them from accessing preventive health services in their host countries. In this paper, we introduce a system which aims to break down these barriers and to give assistance to migrants.
  • Keywords
    cultural aspects; health care; linguistics; patient treatment; cost reduction; cultural barriers; health care providers; intelligent migrant health assistant; linguistic barriers; medical treatments; people personal well being; preventive health services; Companies; Insurance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2013 7th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Venice
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0296-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-936968-80-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6563951