Public Health Guidelines for Physical Activity: Is There an App for That? A Review of Android and Apple App Stores

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Knight, Emily ^a,b   Stuckey, Melanie I ^a   Prapavessis, Harry ^a   Petrella, Robert J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Aging Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care Research Centre   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exercise; Mobile applications; Public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091852574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4003     Document Type: Review

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