HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE A new course on the History of Public Health and Social Medicine is now being offered at the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, in the spring semester of 1966. The purpose of this course is to trace the genesis and the development of scientific fact and ideas, taking into account intellectual exchanges and influences of a...

1829 This article documents the emergence of social media, and specifically social network sites (SNS) and their impact on health information–seeking and health-related behaviors. We review surveys of user behavior on SNS to document how health information is being transformed into a social health experience rather than an individual or clinical endeavor. We then turn to the research evidence f...

Introduction t’s mildly surprising to look for a definition of “social media” and not find it to be: an Internet-based way to stay in touch with friends, waste time, and kill productivity. It is, instead, loosely defined as user-generated content utilizing Internetbased publishing technologies, distinct from traditional print and broadcast media. If there is a key differentiator for social medi...

Introduction: Traditional citation analysis has been greatly criticized because the process of citation accumulation requires considerable time after publication. So, the term “altmetrics” was proposed in 2010 to measure the scientific and social impact of a paper.We performed a search for certain nuclear medicine topics using the altmetrics approach to report the correlation b...

The literature on physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, social sciences, arts and other related areas demonstrates in the last years a very strong trend in the use of Information Theory. Specially the strong interdisciplinary interest [1-3] the complexity studies [4-6] and some recent publications [7,8] demonstrated that there is no consensus on what information is, no consensus on the necessi...

1 University of Antwerp, Belgium, Epidemiology and Social Medicine 2 Service public de Wallonie 3 Federal Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Brussels Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, VUB, Brussels Epidemiology and Social Medicine, UA, Antwerp 4 Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium 5 IRSSESP, Université Catholique de Louvain 6 Scientific Institute of Publi...

Social media includes many different forms of technology including online forums, blogs, microblogs (i.e. Twitter), wikipedias, video blogs, social networks and podcasting. The use of social media has grown exponentially and time spent on social media sites now represents one in five minutes spent online. Concomitant with this online growth, there has been an inverse trajectory in direct face-t...

These advances in the physical and biological sciences provided much needed explanations for how the body functioned in health and disease. Leading scientists such as Claude Bernard developed the concept of internal physiological balance, later named homeostasis by Walter Cannon [2, 3] . Edward Jenner introduced the method of vaccination, and Joseph Lister demonstrated the value of antisepsis [...

In principle knowledge is doubtless indivisible, but in practice we have to divide it into small finite tracts, with plenty of overlap, in which each of us cultivates his respective plot with whatever tools he is most adept at using. It is inevitably a messy business, but as with all bureaucratic arrangements for the division of labour, it is occasionally rewarding to try to think through (and,...

BACKGROUND Public health practitioners and researchers for many years have been attempting to understand more clearly the links between social conditions and the health of populations. Until recently, most public health professionals in English-speaking countries were unaware that their colleagues in Latin America had developed an entire field of inquiry and practice devoted to making these lin...