Integrating Cell Phones and Mobile Technologies Into Public Health Practice: A Social Marketing Perspective

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 490-494

  Lefebvre, Craig ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

media; social marketing; technology

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; COST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MARKETING;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CELLULAR PHONE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 75549086184     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839909342849     Document Type: Article

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