Communication, Health and Technology: the road to mHealth
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https://doi.org/10.35669/revistadecomunicacionysalud.2015.5(1).149-158Keywords:
Communication health; technology; applications; apps; mobile phone; smartphoneAbstract
The technological development experienced in recent decades has led to a profound change in a society currently consists of individuals with a high degree of dependence on devices that change their behaviors and improve their daily quality of life. With a smartphone in hand not only have a tool to communicate, we have in our possession a tool through mobile or more commonly known as apps identified applications gives us access to a large universe of resources. The contribution of mobile applications to health occurs in different policy areas and in this paper we focus on the fundamentals that define the capabilities of mHealth.
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