Life Supporting Technologies

One of the main difficulties faced by public health management in developed countries is the aging of the population and, consequently, the growing of chronic diseases. Those diseases “contributed approximately to 59 % of the total reported deaths in the world and 46 % of the global burden of disease”. Many of them could be easily prevented improving aspects like therapy compliance, healthy lifestyle, personalised information and patient motivation. This paper contributes to solve this situation by presenting a Web tool that provides the user with information to improve and control his own self-care, through the use of the e-learning technologies. The user is also motivated to take control of his decisions regarding lifestyle. Keywords: Motivation on self-care, prevention and promotion strategies, public health, personalization, portlets. 1