Social Media and Public Health: Opportunities and Challenges

• Andere auteurs: Ahmed, Wasim (Redacteur), Vidal-Alaball, Josep (Redacteur)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Onderwerpen: Public health & preventive medicine; social media; disordered eating behaviours; body image; female; university students; telemedicine; carbon dioxide; air pollutants; vehicle emissions; primary care; machine learning; teleconsultation; remote consultation; classification; public health; short video; social network; TAM; cost analysis; health technology assessment; provider-to-provider telemedicine; telehealth; economic analysis; questionnaires and surveys; validation studies; health personnel; electronic nicotine delivery systems; smoking; twitter; poor doctor-patient relationship; healthcare consultation; mobile context; computer-mediated communication; point-of-care systems; ultrasonography; traffic-related pollution; primary health care; acceptability of health care; surveys and questionnaires; health communication; Spanish official medical colleges; stakeholders; Twitter; systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); network analysis; topic modeling; text analysis; online media; vaccination; social marketing; stroke; prehospital emergency care; training; stroke code; large vessel occlusion; prehospital scales; hearing loss; latent topic; LDA; social Q& A; public voice; public health emergency; policy evolution; product innovation; cooperative governance; COVID-19; coronavirus; masks; transmission
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Social media has the potential to provide rapid insights into unfolding public health emergencies such as infectious disease outbreaks. They can also be drawn upon for rapid, survey-based insights into various health topics. Social media has also been utilised by medical professionals for the purpos...