Social Networks are become more important in our understanding of health and related behaviors. Recently social network researchers have examined how obesity (and happiness) can travel through a social network. The growth of connections to social networks through communication portals such as Facebook and Twitter allows for flow of information between individuals that can lead to a healthier and a more knowledgeable population. This talk will help examine and explain how social network technology can be beneficial from a health perspective.
Social Networks and Health: How Facebook Can Save Your Life
1. Social Networks and Health:
How Facebook Can Save Your Life
Ernesto Ramirez, M.S.
University of California, San Diego
Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems
2. What do you guys think about
universal healthcare? Universal healthcare? More
like universal who-cares!
Social Networks: Why do we care?
Social Networks
and Health
3. Why we Share: The Collective
The Human Super
Organism
Social Networks
and Health
4. Networks: Me, You, and Everyone We Know
Your Friend’s Friend’s Friends
Your Friend’s Friends
Your Friends
Social Networks
and Health