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This is the first textbook of its kind to offer students an introduction to best practices for using technology in health promotion programs. Integrating detailed case studies and interactive skill-building exercises throughout, this succinct and practical text teaches students to identify the most appropriate technology to meet their goals.
A Primer on Technology-Based Health Promotion
A Primer on Technology-Based Health Promotion
Chapter Overview
This chapter introduces readers to the use of computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and mobile devices in health promotion. We offer specific examples from a growing body of literature that illustrate how these modalities are unique and different from traditional health promotion efforts. We also offer examples from the literature that illustrate the challenges we face with technology-based health promotion. This dynamic field has offered us several programs that we can highlight as current “best practices,” and we will describe these as well. In this section, we will also consider the role of theory in technology-based health promotion, offering a conceptual framework to link the unique aspects of this field to health promotion ...
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