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Jun 2022
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Can an app improve your health? With Gar...

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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Digital interventions that promise to help you achieve your health and fitness goals are everywhere. But do these apps work and are they a useful public health tool? Gary Bennett, PhD, director of the Duke University Global Digital Health Science Center, discusses how digital interventions can help address obesity and other public health challenges, how to f ... Show More
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