The use of social media to share information, enhance learning, and connect with an online
community has grown rapidly over the past 10 years. As social media becomes a more …

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

Increasingly, people with diverse health conditions turn to social media to share their illness
experiences or seek advice from others with similar health concerns. This unstructured …

Digital media provide novel tools for patient activists from disease-and condition-specific
communities. While those with debilitating conditions or disabilities have long recognised …

Discussions of digital health technologies in the popular media and the medical and public
health academic literature frequently comment on how these technologies might offer new or …

This article presents findings from a qualitative study concerning Australian women's use of
Facebook for health and medical information and support and the implications for …

Background Nonprofit organizations have always played an important role in health
promotion. Social media is widely used in health promotion efforts. However, there is a lack …

Social media has grown very quickly and has affected all dimensions of the world's
community. The purpose of this article is to review valid articles on the relationship between …

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and their family members increasingly seek
health information on the Internet. There has been little exploration of how MS patients …

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the content of the most viewed
professional and consumer videos uploaded to YouTube related to skin cancer. Methods: A …