Knowledge Management in Healthcare Sustainability: A Smart Healthy Diet Assistant in Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture

Yang Chi, Congcong Yu, Xiaohui Qi and Hao Xu
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Yang Chi: College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Congcong Yu: College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Xiaohui Qi: College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Hao Xu: College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-21

Abstract: In the past 40 years, with the changes to dietary structure and the dramatic increase in the consumption of meat products in developing countries, especially in China, encouraging populations to maintain their previous healthy eating patterns will have health, environmental, and economic co-benefits. Healthy diet education plays an important role in the promotion of people’s healthy behavior. However, in the modern age, the data regarding healthy diets available on the internet is increasing rapidly and is distributed on multiple sources. It is time-consuming for users to learn about healthy diets on the internet: they need to search data on multiple platforms, choose and integrate information, and then understand what they have learned. To help people retrieve and learn healthy diet knowledge more efficiently and comprehensively, this paper designs a knowledge graph to integrate healthy diet information on the internet and provides a semantic retrieval system. In the knowledge graph, five main concepts are defined, including food material, dish, nutritional element, symptom, and crowd, as well as the relationships among them. In addition, Chinese dietary culture elements and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory are also contained in the knowledge graph. The preliminary results show that by using the system, users learn healthy diet knowledge more quickly and comprehensively and they are more inclined to have balanced diets. This work could be regarded as a retrieval and education tool, which can assist healthcare and national sustainable development.

Keywords: healthcare sustainability; healthcare education; healthy diet; knowledge graph; traditional Chinese medicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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