Mobile eHealth interventions for obesity: A timely opportunity to leverage convergence trends

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Tufano, James T ^a   Karras, Bryant T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior modification; Cellular telephone; Consumer health informatics; EHealth; Health behavior; Health communication; Intervention; Mobile computing; Obesity; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; INTERNET; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; WEIGHT LOSS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 33747037006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7.5.e58     Document Type: Review

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