Course: Social Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

Hindrance to vaccinate children is one of the vital threats to public health, resulting in millions of children either completely or partially un-immunized. Refusal and hesitancy towards vaccination has become …

Consider the following: How can we quantify the impact of online anti-vaccination material? Why are anti-vaccination videos successful in social media (vs. health authorities)? What tools do we have for …

This video presents Syed-Abdul et. al. study on misleading health-related information promoted through video-based social media: anorexia on YouTube. The amount of information being uploaded onto social video platforms, such …

How do you predict infectious diseases around your location using social media?

Have you ever watched any creative videos produced by a government organisation? The above video provide you with creative ideas from CDC for making viral videos.

Social media tools can provide great insight into healthcare issues. Take a look at this video which shows how we can use Google Trends for epidemiology purposes and to see …

This video provides various examples from the real world on the usage of social media in the healthcare. It talks about what is good, bad and ugly about social media.