HEALTH MANAGEMENT– DIFFERENTAPPROACHES ANDSOLUTIONS  EditedbyKrzysztofŚmigórski           Health Management – Different Approaches and Solutions Edited by Krzysztof Śmigórski Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Used under license from Shutterstock.com First published November, 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Health Management – Different Approaches and Solutions, Edited by Krzysztof Śmigórski p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-296-8 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com   Contents  Preface IX Part 1 Wellness and Lifestyle 1 Chapter 1 A Future for Integrated Diagnostic Helping 3 Mathieu Thevenin and Anthony Kolar Chapter 2 A Mobile-Phone-Based Health Management System 21 Yu-Chi Wu, Chao-Shu Chang, Yoshihito Sawaguchi, Wen-Ching Yu, Men-Jen Chen, Jing-Yuan Lin, Shih-Min Liu, Chin-Chuan Han, Wen-Liang Huang and Chin-Yu Su Chapter 3 Health Care with Wellness Wear 41 Hee-Cheol Kim, Yao Meng and Gi-Soo Chung Chapter 4 Smart Health Management Technology 59 Hiroshi Nakajima Chapter 5 Association of Intimate Partner Physical and Sexual Violence with Childhood Morbidity in Bangladesh 79 Mosiur Rahman and Golam Mostofa Chapter 6 Making a Healthy Living Space Through the Concept of Healthy Building of Building Medicine 93 Chih-Yuan Chang Chapter 7 Mycotoxins: Quality Management, Prevention, Metabolism, Toxicity and Biomonitoring 117 C. N. Fokunang, O. Y. Tabi, V. N. Ndikum, E. A. Tembe-Fokunang, F. A. Kechia, B. Ngameni, N. Guedje, R. B. Jiofack, J. Ngoupayo, E. A. Asongalem, J. N. Torimiro, H. K. Gonsu, S. Barkwan, P. Tomkins, B. T. Ngadjui, J. Y. Ngogang, T. Asonganyi and O. M. T. Abena VI Contents Chapter 8 Non-Invasive Methods for Monitoring Individual Bioresponses in Relation to Health Management 143 Vasileios Exadaktylos, Daniel Berckmans and Jean-Marie Aerts Chapter 9 Environmental Pollution and Chronic Disease Management – A Prognostics Approach 161 Bernard Fong and A. C. M. Fong Chapter 10 Epidemiology and Prevention of Traffic Accidents in Cuba 181 Humberto Guanche Garcell and Carlos Martinez Quesada Part 2 Disease Management 195 Chapter 11 Health Infrastructure Inequality and Rural-Urban Utilization of Orthodox and Traditional Medicines in Farming Households: A Case Study of Ekiti State, Nigeria 197 Taiwo Ejiola Mafimisebi and Adegboyega Eyitayo Oguntade Chapter 12 A New Economic and Social Paradigm for Funding Recovery in Mental Health in the Twenty First Century 215 Robert Parker Chapter 13 Three Decades of the Integrated Child Development Services Program in India: Progress and Problems 243 Niyi Awofeso and Anu Rammohan Chapter 14 Disease Management of Avian Influenza H5N1 in Bangladesh – A Focus on Maintaining Healthy Live Birds 259 Muhiuddin Haider and Bethany Applebaum Chapter 15 Affectation Situation of HIV/AIDS in Colombian Children 271 Ana María Trejos Herrera, Jorge Palacio Sañudo Mario Mosquera Vásquez and Rafael Tuesca Molina Chapter 16 Strengthening Health Systems in Yemen: Review of Evidence and Implications for Effective Actions for the Poor 285 Abdulwahed Al Serouri, John Øvretveit, Ali A. Al-Mudhwahi and Majed Yahia Al-Gonaid Chapter 17 Performance Measurement Features of the Italian Regional Healthcare Systems: Differences and Similarities 299 Milena Vainieri and Sabina Nuti Contents VII Part 3 General Issues 313 Chapter 18 Causal Inference in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance 315 Yasutaka Chiba Chapter 19 Design of Scoring Models for Trustworthy Risk Prediction in Critical Patients 337 Paolo Barbini and Gabriele Cevenini Chapter 20 Human Walking Analysis, Evaluation and Classification Based on Motion Capture System 361 Bofeng Zhang, Susu Jiang, Ke Yan and Daming Wei Chapter 21 The Role of Mass Media Communication in Public Health 399 Daniel Catalán-Matamoros Chapter 22 The Unresolved Issue of the “Terminal Disease” Concept 415 Sergio Eduardo Gonorazky Chapter 23 Prolactin and Schizophrenia, an Evolving Relationship 433 Chris J. Bushe and John Pendlebury Chapter 24 Tolerance to Tick-Borne Diseases in Sheep: Highlights of a Twenty-Year Experience in a Mediterranean Environment 451 Elisa Pieragostini, Elena Ciani, Giuseppe Rubino and Ferruccio Petazzi Chapter 25 The Foragining Ecology of the Green Turtle in the Baja California Peninsula: Health Issues 477 Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, Ana Luisa Talavera-Saenz, Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango, Mónica Lara-Uc and Susan Gardner  Preface  Advancesinmodern medicine haveenabled theability to significantlyprolong the average lifespan expectancy. The development of this knowledge ensures unprecedented possibiliti es  in terms  of explaining the causes of diseases and effective treatment.  However, increased capabili ti es  create new issues. Both, researchers and clinicians, as well as managers of healthcare units fac e new challenges:increasingvalidityandreliabilityofclinical trials,effectiv ely distributing medical products, managing hospitalsandclinicsflexibly, and mana ging treatment processesefficiently. In the past decades, the development of a new, fascinating discipline of science has beenobserved.Thisdisciplineiscalled“healthmanagement”.Forthepurposesofthis book, the rep ort by the Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare, Marc LaLonde, has been taken as a point of reference. The report proclaimed in 1974 is considered to beʺthe first modern government document in the western world to acknowledge that our emphasis upona biomedical health care sy stemis wrong, and thatweneedtolookbeyondthetraditionalhealthcare(sickcare)systemifwewishto improvethehealthofthepublicʺ.Ithasofferednewprospectsfortheissuesofhealth care. It emphasizes the responsibility of an individual in developing behaviors conducivetokeepingher/himingoodhealth . LaLonde assumes that there are four main factors of health: human biology, the  environment, the lifestyle, and health care services. He contended that health cannot besecuredonlybydevelopmentofmedicalsciences,butbymakingwiseandrational decisions by individuals and the whole soc iety too. His legacy includes a recommendationaccordingtowhichhealthcareinterventionsshouldfocusongroups at risk of a disease de velopment and poin t health inequalities out. LaLondeʹs work widened significantly as the range of actions related to health care services by incorporatingcategories had notbeen associated with it be fore. Atpresent,thanks to LaLonde, health management strategies are highly differentiated with respect to its recipientsanddimensionsofconstitutingareasoftheiractivities. Manygreatauthorshave contributed tothisbook. Their workis dividedin the three followingsections: X Preface 1. WellnessandLifestyle–Inthissection,readerswillfindchaptersdescribing interventions that are designed to support the generally healthybefore they exhibitsymptomsofchronicorcatastrophicdisease. 2. DiseaseManagement– Programs requiring the identification of population sub‐groups that are already exhibiting some elements of chronic disea se are put here. The interventions described in this section are less individualized and should tend to address the characteristics of the larger population with  riskfactors. 3. General Issues – Readers interested in methodology of clinical trials and general findings that widen our understanding of human health determinantsshouldpayspecialattentiontothissection. ThisbookisadirectlegacyofMarcLaLondeʹsreport.Theaimofitistopresentissues relatingtohealthmanagementinawaythatwouldbesatisfyingtoacademiciansand practitioners.Thebookisdesignedtobeaforumfortheexpertsinthethe maticareato exchange viewpoints, and to present health managementʹs state‐of‐art as a scientific andprofessionaldomain.Ihopeitwillprovidereaderswithnewvaluableinformation andtheywillenjoyreadingit.  Dr.KrzysztofŚmigórski MedicalUniversityofWroclaw ResearchInstituteforDementia‐RelatedDise ases Poland 