A mobile phone enabled health promotion program for middle-aged males

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1173-1176

  Ding, H ^a   Karunanithi, M ^a   Duncan, M ^b   Ireland, D ^a   Noakes, M ^a   Hooker, C ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EATING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALS; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS;

GERIATRICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE PHONES; SMARTPHONES;

HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84886456191     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6609715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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