Social Media: A Path to Health Literacy

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 240, Issue , 2017, Pages 464-475

  Roberts, Michelle ^a   Callahan, Lizz ^a   O'leary, Catina ^a  

^a Health Literacy Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; Health literacy; Health literacy media; social media; U.S. National Action Plan to improve health literacy; vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTH LITERACY; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

HEALTH;

HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; VULNERABLE POPULATION; HEALTH PROMOTION;

HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85030677734     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-790-0-464     Document Type: Article

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