Developing a smartphone 'app' for public health research: The example of measuring observed smoking in vehicles

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 446-452

  Patel, Vimal ^a   Nowostawski, Mariusz ^a   Thomson, George ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Medlin, Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH IMPACT; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; SMOKING; SOFTWARE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; POLAND;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; E-MAIL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMOKING; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CELLULAR PHONE; DATA DISPLAY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; POLAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84883055242     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-201774     Document Type: Article

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