Mobile phones for health communication to promote behavior change

eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 147-166

  Abroms, Lorien C ^a   Padmanabhan, Nalini ^a   Evans, W Douglas ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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