This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Theme Issue: Apps for COVID-19 (#Apps4Covid) (140) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2548) Digital Contact Tracing, Digital Proximity Tracing, Precision Public Health (159) Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (158) mHealth in the Developing World/LMICs, Underserved Communities, and for Global Health (707) Use and User Demographics of mHealth (397)

Published on in Vol 9, No 8 (2021): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/29923, first published .
Prosociality and the Uptake of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Survey Analysis of Intergenerational Differences in Japan

Prosociality and the Uptake of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Survey Analysis of Intergenerational Differences in Japan

Prosociality and the Uptake of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Survey Analysis of Intergenerational Differences in Japan

Authors of this article:

Masahiro Shoji1 Author Orcid Image ;   Asei Ito1 Author Orcid Image ;   Susumu Cato1 Author Orcid Image ;   Takashi Iida1 Author Orcid Image ;   Kenji Ishida1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hiroto Katsumata2 Author Orcid Image ;   Kenneth Mori McElwain1 Author Orcid Image
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