Leveraging mobile technology for public health promotion

Researchers and practitioners around the world emphasize that managing personalized loading measures gradually in real-world, outdoor settings is key to advancing health and performance. This paper explores how mobile technology and wearable sensors can help achieve this, providing evidence-based guidance for personalizing interventions and promoting sustainable health behaviors.

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Leveraging Mobile Technology for Public Health Promotion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

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This perspective article provides multidisciplinary recommendations on the design and use of mobile technology, and the concomitant wealth of data, to promote behaviors that support overall health. Using physical activity as an exemplar health behavior, they review emerging strategies for health behavior change interventions. They describe progress on personalizing interventions to an individual and their social, cultural, and built environments, as well as on evaluating relationships between mobile technology data and health to establish evidence-based guidelines.