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
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