Uma infraestrutura baseada em componentes para desenvolvimento de aplicações pervasivas para cuidados com a saúde.

Abstract

Nowadays, there are estimates that 72% of all deaths are because of chronic diseases. These diseases have a slow and continuos progression, and it’s treatment can take years. In most cases, the treatment requires a constant monitoring of the patient to be effective. The problem is that the costs of this kind of treatment are very high. The most accepted way to reduce theses costs is to change the care taking paradigm. Now, patient is seen as a passive receptor of the treatment, while in the new paradigm, he is seen as an important agent for he’s own healh. This new paradigm is called self-care. To implement this self-care paradigm, the patient must use the recommended sensors and a mobile device. This mobile device retrives the sensor’s information and show them to the patient, at the same time that sends it to the medical center. In this dissertation, a component-based infrastructure is proposed to make the communication between the sensors and the user-level applications on the mobile device easier.