Call for Submissions: Healthcare Social Media Review #21

on January 8, 2013

How can social media support prevention and wellness?

January is the month of new resolutions yet a study out of the University of Scranton finds that only 8% of us actually achieve these resolutions. At the same time, about 1 in 3 Americans plan on buying a new fitness tech in 2013. Yet as the image above reminds us, at varying degrees, health is more than a click of a button.

On Wednesday, Jan. 16, SocialButterfly will host the HealthCare Social Media Review, the peer reviewed blog carnival for everyone interested in health care social media. Given the importance of prevention amidst a nation with an expanding waistline, this edition will focus on how social media collides with health promotion, prevention and wellness.

You may know of a number of initiatives using social media for health promotion. Submit them. You may have supportive research. Share it. You may think it’s all a bunch of hooey. We want to hear your opinion.

To submit your post:

Email a link to your post or posts (no more than two submissions per author) by 5pm (ET) on Jan. 15.

Format your submission email as follows:

Email Subject Line: HealthCare SocialMedia Review
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Learn more about the HCSM Review by visiting HealthWorks Collective or follow @healthworkscollectiv on Twitter. I look forward to your posts!

Ray R. Lewis

Looking forward to see what apps are available, and being used, at different points of the ever changing food systems environment. I’m starting my search and review with the last Surgeon General Healthy Apps Challenge winners. http://sghealthyapps.challenge.gov/
Happy Healthy Safe and Prosperous New Year to you Alex!

http://twitter.com/SocialBttrfly Alexandra Bornkessel

Thanks Ray! I like how that challenge includes “tailored health information” – a powerful way to encourage healthy habits!

I can’t believe it’s already February – hope you’re year is going smoothly!

Best,

Alex

Ray R. Lewis

February is cold here in MN, but life without challenges is boring.

I didn’t get the food system position i was hoping for, so I’m now looking at how the availability and use of financial products and services impact health. Plus the entry lelel phone banker job providing customer serives and recommending stuff is full time job, with benefits, only three miles from home!

How banks balance their employee and customer ‘s financial well being with shareholders seems worth exploring, it may be a “profitable” way to examine HIA from a slightly different viewpoint of who gains.
I’m looking at how benefits to different stakeholder can be measured, but the policy and advocacy possibilities from a HiAP framework are still fuzzy.

Apps available for a digital financial future seem to have potential for helping both financial and mental health if they can manage income, expenses and future planning.
Take care,RRL

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How can social media support prevention and wellness?

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