Virtual health assistants: a grand challenge in health communications and behavior change
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2024
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Maher, C.
Singh, B.
Wylde, A.
Chastin, S.
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Frontiers in Digital Health, 2024; 6(1418695):1-4
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Modern lifestyles are characterized by convenience and technology. A by-product of this is lifestyle-induced chronic diseases, which are escalating, presenting unprecedented challenges to global health. Worldwide, billions of people are grappling with the repercussions of health-compromising lifestyles—be it poor-quality diets, inadequate physical activity, smoking, or other health-compromising behaviors. Altering entrenched lifestyle patterns is tremendously challenging for individuals and the health system, with most people requiring extensive personalized support to make and sustain lifestyle changes. Such support is prohibitively expensive for many, and public health systems don't have the capacity to deliver the required level of services, making it out of reach for the majority.
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Copyright 2024 Maher, Singh, Wylde and Chastin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)