This ‘Improving Public Health’ social media project was started for numerous reasons. Realizing most people now interact utilizing social media/internet, and many are accessing this information at the fingertips of their smart-phones, made me realize we can impact our society by educating via social media. Someone once told me when I was a new nurse, “you don’t even know what you don’t know yet”. Sounds elementary and simple, but so much truth to that statement. How are we to know all there is to know about our health and bodies until someone explains it to us? Utilizing facebook and twitter, along with numerous other social media websites, can give people those links to educate them on any and every topic. People also need access to information from reliable sources. All too often we hear patients or family say they’ve read something on the internet, and we have to now correct their way of thinking and that false information they’ve received from an unreliable source.
This project is just starting, and will be ongoing throughout the remainder of my graduate program, but it is not solely for school, hopefully it will grow so I can continue once school is done.
· The blogging and sharing gives me that outlet to express myself and share my feelings in public health related topics. Facebook is sharing important information and links to a community. Twitter is sharing links and educational information globally.
· This project is also for every patient who has been admitted to the hospital and not understand why. It’s for the patients with a-fib and cannot explain to me what that is and what that means or why they take Coumadin. It’s about the person who takes “a water pill” and doesn’t know much more than that. It’s for every time members of my family, or my patients, say to me “my blood pressure is good”, “my sugar is good”, and when I ask them to “define good, what is normal to you”, I get the silent treatment.
· This is about prevention and feeling like I’m participating in my own small way to that. It’s about the social responsibility I feel working in health care to share what we know, learn, or what we think is beneficial information to the public, to improve public health.
Here is more information on my project below. Please join me, not only with my project, but also in your own everyday practice. If you read something educational, informative, and beneficial to the lives of others, share it.
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IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH
A SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT
Website-Blog-Facebook-Twitter-Digg-StumbleUpon-LinkedIn-HubPages
Welcome to Improving Public Health!
Integrating social media into health communication helps spread key messages, influence health decision making, and improve health outcomes. My goal is to educate people on public health related topics through the use of facebook and twitter, and writing blogs relating to public health, posting them to Blogger, GoogleBuzz, Google+, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, HubPages, etc.. My blog website will also have links and widgets for additional health information The Center for Disease Control list Healthy People 2020 goals, one being: "Use health communication strategies and health information technology (IT) to improve population health outcomes and health care quality, and to achieve health equity." According to the CDC, using social media tools has become an effective way to expand reach, foster engagement, and increase access to credible, science-based health messages.
Integrating social media into health communication helps spread key messages, influence health decision making, and improve health outcomes. My goal is to educate people on public health related topics through the use of facebook and twitter, and writing blogs relating to public health, posting them to Blogger, GoogleBuzz, Google+, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, HubPages, etc.. My blog website will also have links and widgets for additional health information The Center for Disease Control list Healthy People 2020 goals, one being: "Use health communication strategies and health information technology (IT) to improve population health outcomes and health care quality, and to achieve health equity." According to the CDC, using social media tools has become an effective way to expand reach, foster engagement, and increase access to credible, science-based health messages.
Please share in my goal of improving public health by sharing and educating via social media. Let's do our part in achieving all Healthy People 2020 goals. Join me through the following sites:
TWITTER: @imppublichealth
FACEBOOK PAGE: Improving Public Health: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Improving-Public-Health/243934568959974
IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH DAILY NEWSLETTER: http://paper.li/imppublichealth/1314553941
IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH DAILY NEWSLETTER: http://paper.li/imppublichealth/1314553941
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