THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGY ON LIFESTYLE AND HEALTH – A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Håkan Alm hakan.alm@ltu.se Positive impact of technology As a start I would like to give a short and simple definition of the concept “technology”. Technology will‚ in this case and this paper‚ refer to any physical object‚ product‚ environment‚ or symbol that has been created by human beings. Another frequently used concept with the same meaning is “artifact” (Simon‚ 1969). Technology has had a great impact upon
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Lifestyle is an important predictor of ’How well a person ages’. Important factors such as eating right and exercising regularly are major components of a healthy lifestyle that play an important role on how long a person can live. The focus of this research is to explain the relationship between aging and the food you eat‚ how often you exercise ‚ and your mental state . Finally it will focus on different ways of maintaining a decent lifestyle in order to live longer and happier. Many people
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The Effects of Using Smart Phones on Teenagers and Adults Lifestyle FACTORS Smart Phones Addiction Social Life Interruptions OPERATIONAL DEFINITION 1. Smart Phones - is a device that lets you make telephone calls‚ but also adds in features that‚ in the past‚ you would have found only on a personal digital assistant or a computer--such as the ability to send and receive e-mail and edit Office documents‚ for example. 2. Information Technology – the use of computers and electronic
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Discuss the impact of one infectious disease on the health‚ economic development and lifestyle of the area where it occurs? An infectious disease that affects health‚ economic development and lifestyle is HIV/AIDS. This disease is a pandemic that has spread over continents and all over the world. An area where this disease has effected the most is in South Africa‚ this is because it’s estimated that 5.6 million people are living with HIV and AIDS. Leading on to my next point‚ this has a massive
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Dr. Natasha V Watson Feb 4 2014 The impact of social change on teenagers’ health Teenagers’ getting overweight has become an inexorable trend. Society could change as time goes by. A social change can happen in various areas of human life‚ such as cutting down the size of the family domestic‚ advancement of economic status‚ improvement of high technology and modification of dietary habit. Social change is the main factor that causes teenagers’ obesity. A number of factors cause
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“Dysfunctional Family and its Impact to the Teenagers Adjustment” Members: Krizette Ladera Jamela Parnala Nina Rentoria Khim Ruivivar INTRODUCTION: When we say “Broken family” what does it mean? Does it mean a family that consist a father‚ mother and a children? Or a family that is incomplete? Well‚ you see a broken family refers to a family who has been separated or divorced. This research will provide the readers the answers to the common questions that are being asked to the adolescence
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The "lifestyle/exposure theory" was developed by Hindelang‚ Gottfredson‚ and Garofalo (1978:243; e.g.‚ see Goldstein‚ 1994; Maxfield‚ 1987:275; Miethe‚ Stafford‚ and Long‚ 1987:184). This model of criminal events links victimization risks to the daily activities of specific individuals (Goldstein‚ 1994:54; Kennedy and Forde‚ 1990:208).Lifestyles are patterned‚ regular‚ recurrent‚ prevalent‚ or "routine activities" (Robinson‚ 1997b; also see Cohen and Felson‚ 1979; Felson‚ 1994; Hindelang‚ Gottfredson
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WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN ADULTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND HOW SHOULD MEDICINES BE USED TO REDUCE THAT ECONOMIC IMPACT? Dementia is a progressive disease that associates with memory impairment and cognitive deficit. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. In AD‚ brain is damaged by the presence of beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. There are an approximately 820‚000 people (1.3% of population) with dementia in UK. Among them‚ population
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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE We as students in Malaysia lead really hectic lives‚ what with regular schooling‚ compulsory extra-curricular activities‚ piles of homework and tuition. Sometimes it seem that there is never enough time to get everything done‚ so some of us resort to skipping meals or burning the midnight oil. This is not a healthy trend because‚ although it seems as if our bodies can take it‚ there will be serious repercussions when we are older. It is therefore important to maintain a healthy
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Introduction of Lifestyle advertising‚ Literature review‚ Hypothesis‚ Research methodology. A lifestyle-based approach for the delivery of personalized advertisements in digital interactive television. The theoretical basis of the approach is analyzed‚ and two variations are discussed. The first (segmentation variation) relies on interaction-based classification of users into lifestyle segments‚ while the second (similarities variation) is based on the identification of similarities among users
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