Can an app improve your health? With Gary Bennett, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Digital interventions that promise to help you achieve your health and fitness goals are everywhere. But do these apps work and are they a useful public health tool? Gary Bennett, PhD, director of the Duke University Global Digital Health Science Center, discusses how digital interventions can help address obesity and other public health challenges, how to find apps that are effective and backed by research, the challenge of weight stigma, and more. Links Gary Bennett, PhD Speaking of Psychology Homepage Sponsors Newport Healthcare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.7	The last few years have seen an explosion of digital technologies that promise to help people
1:03.5	achieve their health and fitness goals. There are apps to track your diet and weight, count your
1:09.0	steps, and customize your exercise routine.
1:12.0	One 2020 Market Research Report found that the global health and fitness app market is now worth
1:17.5	$1.3 billion and predicted it would be worth more than $4 billion by 2030. These apps may be a commercial
1:25.6	success, but are they a useful public health tool?
1:29.5	As the world confronts what public health organizations have called an obesity epidemic,
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