Asthma on the move: how mobile apps remediate risk for disease management.
Mobile health apps have emerged as a technological fix promising to improve asthma management. In the United States, treatment non-adherence has become the most pressing asthma risk; as such, emphasis has increasingly focused on getting asthmatics to take medications as prescribed. In this article I...
| Publicado en: | Health, Risk & Society Vol. 17; no. 7/8; pp. 510 - 530 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct-Nov2015
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