Benefits of mobile phone technology for personal environmental monitoring

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Donaire Gonzalez, David ^a,b,c,d   Valentín, Antònia ^a,b,c   De Nazelle, Audrey ^e   Ambros, Albert ^a,b,c   Carrasco Turigas, Glòria ^a,b,c   Seto, Edmund ^f   Jerrett, Michael ^g,h   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory; Automatic data processing; Cell phones; Environmental exposure; Mobile applications; Monitoring; Smartphone; Spatio temporal analysis; Travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018514794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5771     Document Type: Article

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