Designing for Empathy and Health
When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The
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Attack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy
Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to
Read morePublic Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks
Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social
Read moreThe Importance of Journalism to Public Health: 10 Years After SARS How Are We Doing?
If a health scare manifested itself in the world and there were no journalists to cover the story, what would
Read moreThe Know-Do Gap in Knowledge Translation Human Resources
Health content needs systems in place to do support its integration into practice. These are human systems and those are built on relationships. We are starting to pay more attention to the way in which content is created now it is time to pay as much attention to how it is translated in real human terms and create the same kinds of supports for people that we try to do for content.
Read moreSocial Media / Social Activism Redux: Can we Learn from Behaviour Change Theories?
The revolution most likely will be Tweeted, but whether that is the cause or the consequence is why research on social media and social activism is needed. Otherwise, we will wind up with another chicken and egg problem.
Read moreSocial Marketing, Marketers and Responsibility
Social marketing can be a problem when what we ‘sell’ has unintended consequences. These are discussed in light of certain health behaviour change concepts and theories.
Read moreSocial Marketing/ Social Media Blowback And eHealth Communication Etiquette
An increase in well-intentioned health and education groups are violating the etiquette of social media by sending unsolicited emails to people and the blowback that comes from that might be enough to derail the good health communication messages to come.
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