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New Media in Obesity Treatment

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Digitalization in the healthcare sector is characterized by various terms, e.g., “digital health”, mobile (m) health, electronic (e) health, telemedicine, which are not subject to a uniform definition. In general, it is about various care and treatment modes in the medical field that take place without direct eye contact with the patients. In recent years, digitalization has also made progress in obesity prevention and treatment, although the effectiveness of digital tools on weight loss is limited. The Digital Care Act allows digital health applications to be prescribed. As a result, for the first time in Germany, framework conditions for digital therapy concepts, the costs of which are covered by health insurance companies, have been created.

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  1. Institute for Nutritional Medicine, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Munich, Germany

    Christina Holzapfel

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  1. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, LWL-University Clinic, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Stephan Herpertz

  2. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

    Martina de Zwaan

  3. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Medical University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Stephan Zipfel

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Holzapfel, C. (2024). New Media in Obesity Treatment. In: Herpertz, S., de Zwaan, M., Zipfel, S. (eds) Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67662-2_80

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