Analysis of the information quality of Korean obesity-management smartphone applications

Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-29

  Jeon, Eunjoo ^a   Park, Hyeoun Ae ^a   Min, Yul Ha ^a   Kim, Hyun Young ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Eulji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Evaluation study; Mobile health units; Obesity; Telemedicine; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893609512     PISSN: 20933681     EISSN: 2093369X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4258/hir.2014.20.1.23     Document Type: Article

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