Citation

Zaidan, A. A. and Zaidan, B. B. and Lakulu, M. B. and Hashim, M. and Kadhem, Z. and Larbani, Moussa (2015) Challenges, alternatives, and paths to sustainability: Better public health promotion using social networking pages as key tools. Journal of Medical Systems, 39 (7). ISSN 0148-5598

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Abstract

This paper discusses the possibility of promoting public health and implementing educational health services using Facebook. We discuss the challenges and strengths of using such a platform as a tool for public health care systems from two different perspectives, namely, the view of IT developers and that of physicians. We present a new way of evaluating user interactivity in health care systems from tools provided by Facebook that measure statistical traffic in the Internet. Findings show that Facebook is a very promising tool in promoting e-health services in Web 2.0. Results from statistical traffic show that a Facebook page is more efficient than other pages in promoting public health.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Social networks, Public health, Knowledge sharing
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering (FOE)
Depositing User:	Ms Nurul Iqtiani Ahmad
Date Deposited:	25 Mar 2015 08:50
Last Modified:	01 Feb 2017 05:13
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/6070

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