¿Cómo afrontar la obesidad en una sociedad digital? Respuestas desde el campo del Análisis Aplicado de la Conducta
Author(s) -
Iván Noé Martínez-Salazar,
Erika Acevedo-Stefai
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
comunitania revista internacional de trabajo social y ciencias sociales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2173-0520
pISSN - 2173-0512
DOI - 10.5944/comunitania.10.1
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , medicine
The obesity epidemic represents a global problem, which is increasing in prevalence. This problem is preventable as are its short and long term consequences. This article presents the advantages and why it should be encouraged the use and research of eHealth technology, specifically combining it with selected concepts of the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) field for the treatment of obesity, a problem that many have called the “twenty-first century disease” .
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