2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A New Health Management Tool by Visualizing ICT Physical Data and People's Behavioral Changes

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23590599
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Medical sociology
Research Institution	Keio University (2012-2013) The University of Tokushima (2011)
Principal Investigator	MORIKAWA Tomiaki 慶應義塾大学, 政策・メディア研究科, 准教授 (30274244)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	PHR / ICT / 健康管理 / 糖尿病
Research Abstract	This study shows how people change their behaviors by visually recognizing the health conditions. For this research,we have developed a new data-collecting/analyzing system for human health using ICT. The objective is to find effective primary prevention of diabetes, and the experiment took place from October 2011 through March 2013 among working men and women. As a result, we observed increased walking distances within 4-6 months and lowered blood pressure. The survey shows 70% of the examinees perceive they had "changed daily behaviors", which suggests the ICT health data-collecting/analyzing system works effectively and it can be used as a new health management method.

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