The Health-e Babies App for Socially Disadvantaged Women: Embracing Technology to Improve Health Literacy
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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘The Health-e Babies Appfor antenatal education: Feasibility for socially disadvantaged women’ from PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194337
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