Public health doctors "hopeless" at using media

Doctors working within public health services.

Clare Gerada 1 , writing in the BMJ, recently stated that the prevailing culture among NHS staff is one of fear. This negativity may be transmitted to the patient who is already likely to be anxious and scared. There is a sense that humanity has been downsized or removed from hospital systems. In this setting it is difficult for patients to have their emotional needs met. Put simply, if health ...

Social media in public health.

INTRODUCTION OR BACKGROUND While social media interactions are currently not fully understood, as individual health behaviors and outcomes are shared online, social media offers an increasingly clear picture of the dynamics of these processes. SOURCES OF DATA Social media is becoming an increasingly common platform among clinicians and public health officials to share information with the pub...

Public Health Education Using Pop Culture and Media

GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH KNOWLEDGE-ACTION NEEDED Public health emphasizes disease prevention, health promotion, and treatment at the population level. General knowledge about public health is lacking, despite the international growth of public health programs. The most recent public health opinion poll identified in the United States (US) was completed over 20 years ago in 1996 by Louis Harris and...

Evidence of doctors' health minister at last.

Fragmented health care services are responsible for South Africa's dismal infant and maternal mortality rates while budgets are being greedily consumed by bloated and inefficient administrations that sideline clinicians at the coalface. New Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said this to 200 doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital while sharing how he plans to turn the floundering health care ship a...

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