Making People Healthier With Text Messaging
Monday, November 16, 2009 - 17:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Despite widespread educational efforts aimed at helping the public make healthy choices, it's understood among experts that people often fail to comply with the advice offered by their doctors and others in the health community. To correct this deficiency in compliance, some researchers are now proposing that text messaging be used to send out health tips to consumers. Given it's popularity and low expense, they say, regular text messaging may be just the thing to prompt people to make behavioral changes for the sake of health read more