**Where Is the Smartphone Leading the Health of Children? Where Is the Smartphone Leading the Health of Children?**

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.70260

Simlawo Kpatékana, Boumé Missoki Azanlédji, Kanassoua Kokou, Mihluedo-Agbolan Komlan Anani and Bouame Kokou Tsolanyo Simlawo Kpatékana, Boumé Missoki Azanlédji, Kanassoua Kokou, Mihluedo-Agbolan Komlan Anani and Bouame Kokou Tsolanyo Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70260

#### **Abstract**

Smartphones allow users to carry a mobile phone, games console, music player, camera, calendar, and Internet browser all in one small handheld device, with their limitations governed only by the types of applications downloaded onto them. They have become an indispensable part of the daily life. While smartphones have made life more convenient with their advantages, they have also brought many side effects especially on the health. This chapter crosses literature data on the side effects of smartphone in terms of health, especially in children. Nonetheless, it may affect people's psychology, behavior, and health especially those of children. A mobile phone battery when heated explodes as a bomb. Awareness should be raised on the dangers of smartphones for children as telephone has become a real life partner in everything. Telephony companies as well as parents should join their effort, and measures should be taken to protect children and teenagers to ensure their welfare as they use smartphones. It is not enough to say that the humanity is in permanent danger. It is necessary to prioritize the protection of health while we rejoice in these technological advances.

**Keywords:** smartphone, health, insecurity, trauma, children
