Health Sciences 4120A/B Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Facebook, Twitter, Public Health
30 Mar 2019
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Worldwide more people have phones than working toilets. Ubiquity (it"s everywhere: practically every institution is digitized, people spend hours a day on social media. It has changed the way we communicate as society. It is one of the most pervasive and fast-moving communication forms that we use today: 3. 77billion users on social media. 39% of social media users use social media for health information. 52hours a year spent seeking health info online vs 1hr speaking face-face with hc practitioner. We will be one of the first generations brought up on social media and internet and can adapt easily to fast changing technology. Info is extremely available but not necessarily reliable it may become an ethical obligation to make sure patients have access to trusted and current evidence through social media. What is it: a group of internet-based applications that show the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Leave a comment (creation: share to a network of friends (exchange)
