BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity disproportionally affects children from low-income households. With the aim of informing intervention, this study examined pathways through which the physical and social home environment may promote childhood overweight/obesity in low-income households. METHODS: Data on health behaviors and the home environment were collected at home visits in low-income, urban hou...

With the brilliant advance of ubiquitous technologies, it is possible to provide more smart and pervasive healthcare services in a smart home environment. Despite of these remarkable advances of technologies, there are few smart home-based personalized healthcare services which fully consider not only user’s current situation but also user’s social relationship. In this paper, we try to model c...

Pervasive computing aims to enable a new paradigm of human-centric computer interaction by embedding increasingly ubiquitous connected computing devices in an environment to allow thorough integration of everyday objects and activities. Built upon this, ambient intelligence tries to make the environment sensitive and responsive to the presence of people by providing technologies and systems tha...

background & aim: nowadays, home health care services play significant roles in modern societies. such services allow the elderly and needy people to pass their treatment process at their own houses in a friendly environment. in this paper, weekly routing and scheduling problem of home health care personnel was investigated. methods & materials: insufficient number of expert personnel or overla...

BACKGROUND Improving access to supermarkets has been shown to improve some dietary outcomes, yet there is little evidence for such effects on children. Relatedly, there is a dearth of research assessing the impact of a structural change (i.e. supermarket in a former food desert) on the home environment and its relationship with children's diet. OBJECTIVE Assess the relative impact of the home...

Intelligent environments, such as smart homes or domotic systems, have the potential to support people in many of their ordinary activities, by allowing complex control strategies for managing various capabilities of a house or a building: lights, doors, temperature, power and energy, music, etc. Such environments, typically, provide these control strategies by means of computers, touch screen ...

Childhood obesity remains a leading cause of health problems that tend to persist into adulthood. The environment is increasingly noted as an important component of obesity prevention and treatment. For children, the home is a key shared environment where diet and activity behavioral patterns develop. The interpersonal home environment includes parenting styles and feeding practices, parent mod...

PURPOSE To investigate the association between home environment resources and the school performance of children from a public school in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, enrolled in the fourth year of the second cycle of Elementary School. METHODS This is a cross-sectional descriptive study in which 48 children aged between 8 and 12 years old participated. It included 28 boys, 20 girls, and their resp...

The study of home environments is a research domain within the field of environmental gerontology that addresses issues related to aging in place. Despite the importance of aging at home, there are few recent studies in this area and most are descriptive and lack theoretical direction. This article examines the current state of research on home environments from which methodological challenges ...