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Tag: games

Posted on October 12, 2017

Not feeling so game to change some of your health-related habits?

Ichiro Kawachi, MD, shares his thoughts on how “gamification” (applying elements of game playing to other activities) can be used to motivate health-related behavior change in this invited commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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