The rapid increase in mobile phone use and other telecommunication technologies in health care during the past decade has paved the way for optimism. mHealth (mobile health) initiatives need to be integrated into national health systems and priorities and fit into the system that the country has already invested in. Partnership between government, regional governments, health care systems, Comm...

Introduction: There have been many studies conducted on the effects of mobile phones radiations on people’s health due to increasing number of mobile phones users. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of electromagnetic waves generated from 3G and 4G mobile phone radiations on student’s reaction time and short-term memory. <stro...

BACKGROUND Using opinion leaders to accelerate the dissemination of evidence-based public health practices is a promising strategy for closing the gap between evidence and practice. Network interventions (using social network data to accelerate behavior change or improve organizational performance) are a promising but under-explored strategy. We aimed to use mobile phone technology to rapidly a...

We propose a basic mobile multicast scheme in Mobile IPv6 called previous network subscription (PS). In PS, when a mobile host moves to a new foreign network, it will build a bi-directional tunnel with its previous network, so mobile host can continue to receive multicast packets soon after handover. We also propose a new reliable mobile multicast protocol called RRHMoM (Reliable Region based H...

The roles of mental health educators and professionals in the diffusion of mental health mobile apps are addressed in this viewpoint article. Mental health mobile apps are emerging technologies that fit under the broad heading of mobile health (mHealth). mHealth, encompassed within electronic health (eHealth), reflects the use of mobile devices for the practice of public health. Well-designed m...

Mobile health (mHealth) systems hold great potential for supporting users in self-managing disease and engaging a healthier life. However, given the mobile context multiple factors that affect person’s health, designing mHealth involves much complexity range of pitfalls. To overcome these pitfalls, scholars have called on system designers to employ co-design approach; is, involve stakeholders a...

This paper presents an e-health mobile application, called DITIS, which supports networked collaboration for home healthcare. The system was originally developed with a view to address the difficulties of continuity of care and communication between the members of a home health care multidisciplinary team. The paper introduces the system DITIS, identifies the needs and challenges of co-ordinate...