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Use of a Website to Accomplish Health Behavior Change: If You Build It, Will They Come? And Will It Work If They Do?

W. Perry Dickinson, Russell E. Glasgow, Lawrence Fisher, L. Miriam Dickinson, Steven M. Christensen, Paul A. Estabrooks and Benjamin F. Miller
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2013, 26 (2) 168-176; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.110344
W. Perry Dickinson
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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Russell E. Glasgow
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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Lawrence Fisher
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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L. Miriam Dickinson
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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Steven M. Christensen
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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Paul A. Estabrooks
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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Benjamin F. Miller
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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Mar 2013, 26 (2) 168-176; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.110344
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