Category Archive: Health Communications

Should government health agencies blog?

A search for active government blogs in Australia will lead you to an impressive list of 39 blogs listed on the Australia.gov.au site. Many government agencies are blogging, from the Aged Care Complaints… Read More

FilmLife Blog Challenge

Image by GDS Infographics via Flickr At Youth Health 2.0, I am passionate about how tools and messages are designed to inspire young people towards better health outcomes. This blog post is about… Read More

Top 10 Youth Health 2.0 articles of 2011

1. #9 cool public health and social media articles 2. Is technology to blame in cybersafety? 3. Stanford Medicine 2.0 Conference 2011 – The Report Card (Guest blog by Prajesh C) 4. iPhone… Read More

Using Facebook in Sexual Health Clinical Care

Overview This poster by Lyn Familton from the Christchurch Hospital  Sexual Health Clinic in New Zealand is the first of its genre to debut at the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference held… Read More

TEDxDarwin 2011

Transcript of my talk on the 6th of August 2011 at #TEDxDarwin “Blood, Sweat and Ideas” Watch it on YouTube Health communications is a remarkable area in health care. It is where public… Read More

Wanted: A social media expert?!

Guest Post by Kate Nelson(@commsgeelong) Kate has been working in marketing and PR for twenty years, initially in educational publishing in the UK, and has been working in the health system for the… Read More

#NEHTA youth forum on PCEHR

 Private and Confidential Reflections On the 2nd of June, the National E-Health Transition Authority (@eHealthAus) invited a wide range of stakeholders to discuss issues around the use of personally controlled electronic health records… Read More

Marketing electronic health records to youth

Guest post by Katharina Zehle Marketing a healthy lifestyle, encouraging health seeking behavior, let alone convincing young people to access health services, all present significant challenges to health professionals. A myriad of factors… Read More

Equity and digital technology in healthcare

Solving the online health equity problem Excerpt taken from the Journal of American Medical Association, 1998 – On Call and Online (Spielberg 1998); Email and the Internet have already begun to transform the… Read More

Health Communications 102

As we explore online health communications (HC) , the challenges aren’t that different from offline HC, though I am convinced online HC requires more creativity in consistent content production.  This post is a … Read More

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