Delivering emoji/icon-based universal health education messages through smartphones

Sudip Bhattacharya; Amarjeet Singh; Roy Rillera Marzo; Sudip Bhattacharya; Amarjeet Singh; Roy Rillera Marzo

doi:10.3934/publichealth.2019.3.242

AIMS Public Health

2019, Volume 6, Issue 3: 242-247. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2019.3.242

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Delivering emoji/icon-based universal health education messages through smartphones

1.
Department of Community Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS), Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, India
2.
Department of Community Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
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Deputy Dean, Asia Metropolitan University, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Received: 28 April 2019 Accepted: 04 July 2019 Published: 22 July 2019

- health communication,
- primary care,
- smartphones,
- health messages,
- public health,
- emojis,
- icons
Citation: Sudip Bhattacharya, Amarjeet Singh, Roy Rillera Marzo. Delivering emoji/icon-based universal health education messages through smartphones[J]. AIMS Public Health, 2019, 6(3): 242-247. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2019.3.242

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We do acknowledge all present and previous authors (working in the field of health communication), contributors and sources, who helped us directly or indirectly for preparing this manuscript.

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All authors declare no conflicts of interest in this paper.

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