《健康游戲》是第一本致力于推動游戲研究、技術(shù)和應(yīng)用對人類健康和福祉的影響的同行評審期刊。這一開創(chuàng)性的出版物提供了原始的研究，直接影響這一新興的，廣泛承認，并日益采用的醫(yī)療保健領(lǐng)域。游戲正迅速成為改善健康行為的重要工具，從健康的生活方式習(xí)慣和行為矯正，到疾病和慢性病的自我管理，再到激勵和支持體育活動。游戲也越來越多地用于培訓(xùn)醫(yī)療保健專業(yè)人員，包括診斷方法、醫(yī)療程序、病人監(jiān)測以及應(yīng)對流行病和自然災(zāi)害的方法。《健康游戲》雜志對于任何對健康游戲的研究和設(shè)計感興趣的人來說都是必須的，這些健康游戲集成了經(jīng)過良好測試的、基于證據(jù)的行為健康策略，以幫助改善健康行為并支持醫(yī)療服務(wù)的提供。

Games for Health Journal is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the impact of game research, technologies, and applications on human health and well-being. This ground-breaking publication delivers original research that directly impacts this emerging, widely-recognized, and increasingly adopted area of healthcare.Games are rapidly becoming an important tool for improving health behaviors ranging from healthy lifestyle habits and behavior modification, to self-management of illness and chronic conditions to motivating and supporting physical activity. Games are also increasingly used to train healthcare professionals in methods for diagnosis, medical procedures, patient monitoring, as well as for responding to epidemics and natural disasters. Games for Health Journal is a must for anyone interested in the research and design of health games that integrate well-tested, evidence-based behavioral health strategies to help improve health behaviors and to support the delivery of care.