Take two aspirin and tweet me in the morning: how Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are reshaping health care.

By C. Hawn. Health Affairs, 2009

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Social media use in healthcare: A systematic review of effects on patients and on their relationship with healthcare professionals (2016, background): “In particular, it allows patients to receive support [1], and to complement offline information [2], which may lead to enhancing the empowerment of patients [6].”
Facebook Friends with (Health) Benefits? Exploring Social Network Site Use and Perceptions of Social Support, Stress, and Well-Being (2013, neutral): “…of Facebook use, though the literature to date has suggested Facebook as a promising channel for health promotion 13 and has explored Facebook use by physicians 14 and patients, 15 no extant research has examined the relationship between any Facebook use variable and physical health outcomes.”
Seeking and sharing health information online: comparing search engines and social media (2014, background): “Online health content can enhance coping and self-efficacy [8], affect healthrelated decisions and behavior of users and their friends and family [11], enable better management of chronic health conditions [1], and fuel discussions with healthcare providers [15].”
You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health (2011, background): “Finally, the community is considering the larger impact of how social media can impact health care, where patients can “friend” doctors and constantly share information among thousands of friends (Hawn 2009; Jain 2009).”
From ADHD to SAD: Analyzing the Language of Mental Health on Twitter through Self-Reported Diagnoses (2015, background): “While many users discuss physical health conditions such as cancer or the flu (Paul and Dredze, 2011; Dredze, 2012; Aramaki et al., 2011; Hawn, 2009), some also discuss mental ill-”
Patients' and health professionals' use of social media in health care: motives, barriers and expectations. (2013, background): “The existence and growth of social media usage will undeniably also affect the patient–physician relationship, including a better understanding of health information among patients, active patient engagement in health maintenance, and a pro-active patient response to health challenges [8,13,16,17,28”
Quantifying Mental Health Signals in Twitter (2014, background): “…media is plentiful and has enabled diverse research on a wide range of topics, including political science (Boydstun et al., 2013), social science (Al Zamal et al., 2012), and health at an individual and population level (Paul and Dredze, 2011; Dredze, 2012; Aramaki et al., 2011; Hawn, 2009).”
M-health and health promotion: The digital cyborg and surveillance society (2012, background): “(Hawn, 2009, p. 365) As these comments suggest, the use of m-health technologies blur the spatial boundaries between public and private surveillance, bringing public surveillance into the domestic sphere.”
Social Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in Medicine and Health Care (2014, background): “Though this may be due to the novel nature of social media, such evaluations would help determine the appropriate incentives (eg, CME vs money), who should provide them, the return on investment, total cost of ownership, scalability, and long-term financial feasibility of using social media [108].”
Social Media Use in the United States: Implications for Health Communication (2009, background): “Given the growing role of social media in health, future iterations of HINTS may specifically capture health-related social media use [10].”