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01-04-2020 | Editorial

Developing mobile self-tracking for chronic disease prevention: Why listening to users matters?

Author: Vasileios Nittas

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 3/2020

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Smartphones and their health applications (apps) are an integral part of our daily lives, silently tracking our bodily functions and behaviors and changing the ways we perceive ourselves and our environments (Platt et al. 2016). If used correctly, mobile self-tracking technology can help prevent disease without much burden to healthcare systems that operate under resource and human power constraints (Mehl et al. 2014). Despite remaining challenges, like ensuring data quality and privacy, we expect self-tracking data to be increasingly integrated into electronic medical records and used to personalize and improve prevention (Buchwald et al. 2017; Vydra et al. 2015). …

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Title: Developing mobile self-tracking for chronic disease prevention: Why listening to users matters?
Author: Vasileios Nittas
Publication date: 01-04-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01346-x

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