Evolution of Public Health Physical Activity Applications of Accelerometers: A Personal Perspective

Physical activity and public health.

Veterinary education, zoonoses and public health: a personal perspective.

Zoonotic disease poses an important threat to human public health and should therefore be taken seriously. A number of zoonoses also cause severe disease and loss of production in food producing animals. Many veterinarians are less aware of the importance of zoonoses than is desirable and medical clinicians who encounter zoonoses in human patients may either fail to recognise them or concentrat...

Physical activity assessment with accelerometers in children.

Accelerometers for movement registration have the potential to reflect the volume, pattern, intensity, type, and energy expenditure of physical activity(1,2). Developments are still ongoing with regard to reduction of the size of the instruments, lengthening of battery life and translation of the output to meaningful information for the user. Instruments with the capacity for most or all functi...

Health Applications of Human Physical Activity Sensing

The emergence of mobile personal wireless devices such as smart phones, and the miniaturization of sensing technology have opened the door for the creation of human physical activity inference systems. To fulfill the needs of the vast array of health-related applications, an amalgam of sensing systems have been created. This survey maps the physical activity sensing space in the context of heal...

Diet and physical activity Š interactions for health; public health nutrition in the European perspective

For the majority of European adults, who neither smoke nor drink excessively, the most significant controllable risk factors affecting their long-term health are what they eat, and how physically active they are. Scientists are supposed to clarify to policy makers and health professionals the usefulness of their health messages. However, to be able to do that, a more detailed understanding is n...