Social media
in primary health care: Opportunities to enhance education, communication and
collaboration among professionals in rural and remote locations: Did you know?
Practical practice pointers by Anikeeva and Bywood in the Australian
Journal of Rural Health, looks at blogs, microblogs and wikis. The
authors give some useful practical advice and encourage involvement in implementation
and design. AJRH, 21(2), 132-134.
Social
networking in online support groups for health:How online social networking
benefits patients by Chung in the Journal of Health
Communication: International Perspectives, discusses online social media such
as patient blogs and Internet support groups as sources of health information.
The author conducted an online survey with current users of online support
groups and how different people use them to receive emotional and informational
support.
DOI:10.1080/10810730.2012.757396.
A new dimension of health care:
Systematic review of the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for
health communication by Moorhead et al has been published in The
Journal of Medical Internet Research. According to the authors there is a
lack of information about the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media
for health communication among the general public, patients, and health
professionals, and this requires investigation. Using a systematic search of
the literature they identified seven main uses of social media for health
communication, as well as a number of limitations and gaps. They concluded that
social media is a powerful tool that does bring a new dimension to health care,
offering a communication medium for the public, patients, and health
professionals to discuss health issues with the possibility of potentially
improving health outcomes. JMIR 15 (4), e85. Please contact your health library if you have trouble accessing the fulltext of these articles.
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