Social media and mobile applications in chronic disease prevention and management

Front Psychol. 2015 May 7:6:567. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00567. eCollection 2015.

¹ Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Department of Epidemiology, IRCCS Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri Milano, Italy.
² Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Ospedale San Giuseppe Verbania, Italy ; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan Milano, Italy.
³ Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Milano, Italy.

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Keywords: chronic disease; health promotion; mobile health; prevention; social media; social network.