Improving Worker Health With Wearable Technology in a Power Plant

Jong-Hwan Park1, Ting-Fu Lai, Jeong Su Cho

  • 1From the Department of Convergence Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Republic of Korea (J.-H.P.); Department of Clinical Bio-Convergence, Graduate School of Convergence in Biomedical Science, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Republic of Korea (J.-H.P.); Convergence Medical Institute of Technology, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea (J.-H.P.); Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea (T.-F.L., J.S.C., H.J.C., J.-I.L.); Graduate Institute of Sport Pedagogy, University of Taipei, Taiwan (T.-F.L.); Graduate Institute of Sport, Leisure and Hospitality Management, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan (T.-F.L.); Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pusan National University School, Yangsan, Republic of Korea (J.S.C.); Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea (J.S.C.); Department of Neurosurgery, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Yangsan, Republic of Korea (H.J.C., J.-I.L.); and Department of Neurosurgery, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea (H.J.C., J.-I.L.).

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