An Overview of Social Media Use in the Field of Public Health Nutrition: Benefits, Scope, Limitations, and a Latin American Experience
| Autor: | Kenny Mendoza-Herrera, Isabel Valero-Morales, Simón Barquera, Hortensia Reyes-Morales, F. Arce-Amare, Maria E. Ocampo-Granados |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Essay media_common.quotation_subject Best practice Population health Health Promotion 01 natural sciences Literacy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans Social media 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics media_common Scope (project management) business.industry Information Dissemination Health Policy Public health 010102 general mathematics Perspective (graphical) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations Health Literacy Latin America Public Health business Social Media Research center |
| Zdroj: | Preventing Chronic Disease |
| ISSN: | 1545-1151 |
| Popis: | Social media platforms are low-cost tools that can be used to address issues in public health nutrition, especially in countries where health-related institutions experience economic limitations. We aimed to emphasize the benefits of using social media to promote health that have been documented to date. To show social media's positive impact on population health literacy, we briefly describe an inexpensive systematic communication strategy implemented in our research center through 2 social media platforms, the lessons learned, and the strategy's short-term results. Because social media use in public health is a new field of study, this perspective also focuses on the current limitations and gaps in evidence that need to be addressed to translate the best practices into policy recommendations. In conclusion, the perspective highlights the role that health actors and governments should take to maximize the benefits of social media use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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