What is it about?
With the expanding social media platforms and community forums, it is important to identify what information sharing between public, patients and professional healthcarers is useful. This article reviews the dilemmas faced - does this electronic age face us with a self-selection process? Is the 40-60% low literacy rates preventing be empowered to have opportunities for accessing health information? This article uses the long-term condition of diabetes to decipher ethical and practical dilemmas.
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Why is it important?
Fast communication channels and public expectation of knowledge at your fingertips. There is call for international legislation for standardization, relevance, accuracy of information which the public can access and a method for keeping information websites current.
Perspectives
As an Educator and Clinician, I have enjoyed writing this review article to search out the relevance of social media information for patient care; methods of self-care of medical condition of diabetes; and a chance to comment on the dilemma of health inequalities that exist world-wide. How can we improve e-health methods? how can we use the electronic age to supplement our drive to improve the health of the population, by initiative of self-help healthcare?
Dr Babi Rani Pal
University of Glasgow
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This page is a summary of: Social Media for Diabetes Health Education - Inclusive or Exclusive?, Current Diabetes Reviews, November 2014, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1573399810666141015094316.
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