HLTH 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Public Health, Reproductive Health, Microbiota
24 Mar 2016
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The quaniied self: is any individual engaged in the self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental informaion. There is a proacive stance toward obtaining informaion and acing on it. A variety of areas may be tracked and analyzed, for example, weight, energy level, mood, ime usage, sleep quality, health, cogniive performance, athleics, and learning strategies. Human factors iniially focused on work, but recent trends in technology have pushed us to try beter understand our bodies and health overall, not just during work hours. A scieniic understanding of how we work, sleep, eat, interact with the world around us. Sanatoria of padua: studied energy expenditure in living systems by tracking his weight, food intake and eliminaion over 30 years in the 16th century. Oten focus on measuring weight over ime. Help to track long term trends, rather than focus on small changes. Ex: focus on calories burned, or acive minutes each day.
