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Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview Kamel Boulos, Maged N.; Giustini, Dean; Wheeler, Steve

Abstract

Instagram and WhatsApp are two social media and networking services introduced in 2010. They are currently subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc., California, USA. Using evidence from the published literature and case reports indexed in PubMed and other sources, we present an overview of the various applications of Instagram and WhatsApp in health and healthcare. We also briefly describe the main issues surrounding the uses of these two apps in health and medicine.

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Title
Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview
Creator
Kamel Boulos, Maged N.; Giustini, Dean; Wheeler, Steve
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2016-07-26
Description
Instagram and WhatsApp are two social media and networking services introduced in 2010. They are currently subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc., California, USA. Using evidence from the published literature and case reports indexed in PubMed and other sources, we present an overview of the various applications of Instagram and WhatsApp in health and healthcare. We also briefly describe the main issues surrounding the uses of these two apps in health and medicine.
Subject
Social media; Instagram; WhatsApp; MHealth; Teleconsultation; Health; Healthcare; Medicine
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2019-04-12
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0447983
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/69637
Affiliation
Library, UBC; Other UBC; Non UBC
Citation
Future Internet 8 (3): 37 (2016)
Publisher DOI
10.3390/fi8030037
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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