Cultivating Connections: Leveraging Mobile Health to Enhance Online Health Community Engagement

Document Type : Letter to the editor

Authors

1 Department of Community Based Education of Health Sciences, School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

2 Department of Public Health, Centre for Global Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;

3 Department of Medical Education, School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Highlights

Peigham Heidarpoor (Google Scholar) (PubMed)

Masomeh Kalantarion (Google Scholar) (PubMed)

Keywords


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