Mobile Social Networking Health (MSNet-Health): Beyond the mHealth frontier

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 180, Issue , 2012, Pages 808-812

  Househ, Mowafa ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

MHealth; Mobile health; MSNet Health; Social networking

Indexed keywords

MHEALTH;

SMOKING CESSATIONS; WEIGHT LOSS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARTICLE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERNET; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TELEMEDICINE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FORECASTING; INTERNET; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84872529506     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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