社交媒体和数字不平等:通过缩小数字沟来减少健康不平等
Zain Jafar1, Jonathan D Quick2, Eszter Rimányi3
1Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
International journal of environmental research and public health
|November 27, 2024
概括
社交媒体影响公共卫生,提供信息获取,但面临数字沟. 减少数字不平等对于公平的健康效益和结果至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
背景情况:
- 社交媒体显著影响公共卫生,既带来风险 (心理健康危害,错误信息),又带来好处 (快速信息传播,资源获取).
- "数字沟" - - 信息和通信技术的不平等获取和使用 - - 在受益于社交媒体的公共卫生优势方面造成了差距.
- 显而易见的是,在数字接入方面存在重大的区域和人口不平等,这影响了健康信息的公平性.
研究的目的:
- 突出社交媒体对公共健康的影响.
- 强调数字沟在健康不平等中的作用.
- 倡导减少数字不平等的战略,以改善公共卫生结果.
主要方法:
- 审查现有的关于社交媒体对公共卫生影响的文献.
- 对不同地区和人口统计数据的数字访问不平等数据的分析.
- 综合证据,将数字访问与健康结果联系起来.
主要成果:
- 社交媒体提供了快速传播公共卫生信息,并扩大了对卫生资源的访问.
- 数字不平等存在于全球和国家内部,影响基于地区,性别,年龄和社会经济地位的访问.
- 增加数字接入与改善的健康信息和慢性疾病,传染病爆发和生殖健康的结果有积极的相关性.
结论:
- 减少数字不平等至关重要,以确保社交媒体带来的公平公共卫生效益.
- 需要政策和投资来解决数字沟,将数字健康接入视为健康的社会决定因素.
- 策略包括支持政府政策,有针对性的投资,可负担性倡议和数字识字计划.
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