Boulemtafes, AmineBadache, Nadjib2015-12-282015-12-282016978-3-319-23340-6978-3-319-23341-3http://dl.cerist.dz/handle/CERIST/782In order to be effective and helping towards improving quality of living of people, design and development of wearable health monitoring systems needs to satisfy a number of medical and non-medical criteria’s while taking in consideration resource limitations and fulfilling ergonomic constraints. This study with the aim to serve as a quick reference for future works, attempts to cover main research areas including requirements, challenges and tradeoffs related to the design of such systems.Health monitoringResearch areasWearableWirelessBody sensorE-healthM-healthBook Chapter