The interest of primary care patients in using health applications for mobile devices

Abstract

Mobile health technologies and applications installed on smart devices still represent new and relatively understudied phenomena in Poland. At the same time, a multitude of applications and their accessibility cause the increase of opportunities for their use for health purposes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the interest in applications supporting health and healthy lifestyle as well as monitoring health and disease among 718 adult patients in primary health care. It was found that there is a considerable potential for the increase of future use of health applications. Women, young respondents, respondents who hold an undergraduate degree and assess their health status well were observed to be more likely to potentially use applications related to lifestyle, health monitoring and combating disease.

Development of a Path Loss Model for Radio Wave Signals for some Selected Routes in Enugu State, Nigeria

“…The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) television signals, like any other radio and television signal, have areas of weak signal reception. Some of these problems are not due to the station's technical deficit, but rather due to natural or man-made phenomena such as forests, hills, mountains, equipment, and others [1,7,11]. In contrast to audio signals, visual signals react significantly to these natural and artificial factors, which make viewers uncomfortable because they mostly do not enjoy the signal received in this way.…”

“…One of the most important features of a television signal transmission environment is path loss. Path loss is the difference between the actual transmitted power and the power received [7]. This is the decrease in power intensity of a radio wave as it propagates through space.…”