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An Introduction to the Potential for Mobile eHealth Revolution to Impact on Hard to Reach, Marginalised and Excluded Groups

Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo, Shannon Freeman, Hannah R. Marston

Mobile e-Health, Pages: 3 - 13

Swansea University Author: Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-319-60672-9_1

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eHealth is the use of technology to serve and promote health and wellbeing needs of a population. Mobile health is the use of wireless technologies to connect, communicate and promote this amongst different stakeholders within the population. This has great potential for improving the lives of all p...

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Published in: Mobile e-Health
ISBN: 978-3-319-60671-2 978-3-319-60672-9
ISSN: 1571-5035
Published: Springer International 2017
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