Title :
A Model for Social Network-Enhanced Health Communication
Author_Institution :
Discipline of Health Inf., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Social networks have the potential to provide a number of capabilities for augmenting healthcare service delivery and providing new capabilities not present in traditional clinical health communication or public health communication. In this paper we propose a model for social network-enhanced health communication and describe and analyze how this can assist health consumers in the population as a whole, those at risk of developing a condition(s), current sufferers of a specific health condition(s), clinicians, public health authorities, and health and medical researchers.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; health care; social networking (online); clinical health communication; clinicians; health condition; health researchers; healthcare service; medical researchers; public health authorities; public health communication; social network enhanced health communication; Communities; Diabetes; Media; Organizations; Public healthcare; Social network services; chronic disease; health; public health; social media; social networking;
Conference_Titel :
Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0006-3
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2011.155
