Health Care

Health Care

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Power of social networks (digital and mobile technologies in general) and how this power may potentially support or enable public health surveillance efforts as well as provide information efficiently. In no more than 4 pages, compare and contrast such technologically sophisticated sources of public health data with the sources that is up to date. In particular, discuss the following:

The concerns as well as the advantages associated the use of social networks in the context of their use for epidemiological purposes.

Also comment on aspects such as privacy, accuracy, timeliness, and impact related to the utilization of social networks in epidemiology.

Your paper should be 4 pages double-spaced. All components of this paper must be supported by scholarly sources and course materials. You must provide a reference list for all material provided and use proper APA formatting and citation.

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In the rapidly changing information technology landscape, there is need to learn and understand the role of social network in improving or promoting healthcare surveillance. Such an understanding would be helpful in learning how the government and other stakeholders in the field of medicine could harness the same to promote their dispensation of duty. It falls within the responsibility of the healthcare sector to ensure that disease is prevented where necessary. Similarly, the sector is responsible for ensuring that it keeps at per with prevalence of diseases where they present themselves. Most of the population that uses the internet often accesses social networking sites (Chou ET AL. 2009). Such an insight is proof that the health sector could use social networks to improve healthcare provision……………………………………

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