Leveraging Citizen Science and Information Technology for Population Physical Activity Promotion.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

While technology is a major driver of many of society's comforts, conveniences, and advances, it has been responsible, in a significant way, for engineering regular physical activity and a number of other positive health behaviors out of people's daily lives. A key question concerns how to harness information and communication technologies (ICT) to bring about positive changes in the health promotion field. One such approach involves community-engaged "citizen science," in which local residents leverage the potential of ICT to foster data-driven consensus-building and mobilization efforts that advance physical activity at the individual, social, built environment, and policy levels.

Method

The history of citizen science in the research arena is briefly described and

SUBMITTER: King AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4978140 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature