Efficacy of text messaging-based interventions for health promotion: a meta-analysis.

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  2013

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  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  2013-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.08.003PMID 24161087
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