Mobile apps for pediatric obesity prevention and treatment, healthy eating, and physical activity promotion: just fun and games?
- 17 April 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Translational Behavioral Medicine
- Vol. 3 (3) , 320-325
Abstract
Mobile applications (apps) offer a novel way to engage children in behavior change, but little is known about content of commercially available apps fKeywords
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