Title :
Health coaching in Finland — A market study
Author :
Hiekkanen, Antti ; Nieminen, Hannu ; Korhonen, Ilkka
Author_Institution :
Dept. Signal Process., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
Abstract :
Health coaching is a process which facilitates sustainable health behavior change and transformation of health goals into action. Mobile technologies may support efficient health coaching delivery. A survey was conducted for 50 companies in Finland in the field of rehabilitation, nutritional coaching, personal training, and physical coaching. We characterize the current market size and maturity to adapt technology support in Finland.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; health care; mobile handsets; patient rehabilitation; Finland; health coaching delivery; health goal transformation; market size; market study; maturity; mobile technologies; nutritional coaching; personal training; physical coaching; rehabilitation; sustainable health behavior changes; technology support; Abstracts; Companies; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Sensitivity analysis; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
DOI :
10.1109/BHI.2014.6864486
