Sharing sensitive personal health information through facebook: The unintended consequences

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 169, Issue , 2011, Pages 616-620

  Househ, Mowafa ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Facebook; Health information; Privacy; Social networking

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; DISEASES;

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS; FACEBOOK; GENETIC DISORDERS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATIONS; POTENTIAL HARM; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 83055187010     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-806-9-616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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