Harnessing Social Media for Health Promotion and Behavior Change

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-23

  Korda, Holly ^a   Itani, Zena ^a  

^a Altarum Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior change; behavior change theory; consumer health; electronic interventions; evaluation methods; health communication; health promotion; Internet; mass media; program planning and evaluation; social marketing; social media; technology; theory

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872015080     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839911405850     Document Type: Article

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