Climate change and human health: ippocrate a new system for the prevention through the environmental monitoring

Abstract

Many studies demonstrate the impact of the temperature increase on cardiovascular diseases, highlighting how thisclimatic effect represents an important risk for human health."Internet Platform fOr Characterizing the PathologyResearch Atmospheric Technology in health Environment-IPPOCRATE" is an innovative alert system whose purposeis to assess climate risk through the use of an integrated system based on the use of data from meteorological stations inPuglia regional councillorship to the agrifood resources of associations of defence of Apuli a(ASSOCODIPUGLIA) andto dispatch the computed informations to the interested population, suggesting prevention and mitigation actions. Ehealthsystem IPPOCRATE uses mobile technologies and cloud to acquire and share information about different datachannels:"WeHeart", a collection of wearable devices used to monitor health and environment in which people live;Smart Application, the mobile application; Easy Box, a VoIP telephone device. These channels enable the systemIPPOCRATE to reach a large part of the population, including the elderly. IPPOCRATE is the first e-Health systemfocused on prevention of climatic risks.


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  • A. Calabrese; V.F. Uricchio; D. di Noia; E.E.Riezzo; M. Zippitelli; M. Toriello; G.P. Maggi; E. Celiberti; D. Festa; A. Colaianni; L. Trotta; F. Schiavone; G. Laera; A. Petrelli

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2015

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978-88-7843-043-3


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