Health information analysis and health promotion in social media / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

Social media are an important channel to spread health information and an important influencing factor for health information behaviors. The personal information on social media can predict the public health events, as-sess the personal health condition and help to improve the health behaviors of the public. The active role of foreign and domestic social media in predicting epidemic and infectious disease, monitoring smog, supporting user emotion and health, early warning drug adverse effects, and establishing healthy lifestyle were described. The health infor-mation analysis using the data on social media and the effect of social media on health information behaviors were summarized in order to provide the theory for the successive research.