A Model for Social Network-Enhanced Health Communication

Author

Steele, Robert

Author_Institution

Discipline of Health Inf., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

932

Lastpage

938

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2011.155

Filename

6118881