Text messaging interventions for chronic disease management and health promotion

eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 167-186

  Fjeldsoe, Brianna S ^a   Miller, Yvette D ^a   Marshall, Alison L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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