Social Medical Capital: How Patients and Caregivers Can Benefit From Online Social Interactions.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 32720910.
- Also identified by DOI 10.2196/16337 and PMC identifier 7420688.
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Abstract
The rapid growth of online health communities and the increasing availability of relational data from social media provide invaluable opportunities for using network science and big data analytics to better understand how patients and caregivers can benefit from online conversations. Here, we outline a new network-based theory of social medical capital that will open up new avenues for conducting large-scale network studies of online health communities and devising effective policy interventions aimed at improving patients' self-care and health.
Medical subject headings
- Caregivers
- Patients
- Public Health
- Social Capital
- Social Interaction
- Social Media
- Social Support