Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review
BACKGROUND: Social media has been widely used for health-related purposes, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous reviews have summarized social media uses for a specific health purpose such as health interventions, health campaigns, medical education, and disease outbreak surveillance. The most recent comprehensive review of social media uses for health purposes, however, was conducted in 2013. A systematic review that covers various health purposes is needed to reveal the new usages
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Published: 11 April 2021
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Privacy · Healthcare · Children & education
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (11 April 2021), “Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review,” evidence record 8875, https://ethics.ai/record/8875 (originally published by OpenAlex).
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