Effects of social network exposure on nutritional learning: Development of an online educational platform

JMIR Serious Games

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Dagan, Noa ^a   Beskin, Daniel ^b   Brezis, Mayer ^a   Reis, Ben Y ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Nutrition requirements; Obesity; Public health; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017900149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/games.4002     Document Type: Article

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