Figure 12
From: Transdisciplinary unifying implications of circadian findings in the 1950s
Cost and quality trade-offs (left) or instrumented self-help for health improvement (right) concerning blood pressure. Challenge to engineers, to civil servants dispensing government resources, and to each individual interested in self-help. Investment into physiological monitoring and education in chronobiology, to detect warning signs indicative of an elevated risk, rather than only of the fait accompli of disease, can prompt preventive intervention with the goal of avoiding the crippling of catastrophic diseases, also a major drain on financial resources. By placing added emphasis on prevention by general education in chronomic self-monitoring, health care costs could decrease while quality of care is individualized and improved [8, 9].