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Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Date Submitted: Sep 19, 2019
Date Accepted: Mar 30, 2020

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Social Medical Capital: How Patients and Caregivers Can Benefit From Online Social Interactions

Panzarasa P, Griffiths C, Sastry N, De Simoni A

Social Medical Capital: How Patients and Caregivers Can Benefit From Online Social Interactions

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(7):e16337

DOI: 10.2196/16337

PMID: 32720910

PMCID: 7420688

Social medical capital: How patients and caregivers can benefit from online social interactions

  • Pietro Panzarasa; 
  • Christopher Griffiths; 
  • Nishanth Sastry; 
  • Anna De Simoni

ABSTRACT

The rapid growth of online health communities and the increasing availability of relational data from social media provide invaluable opportunities for using network science and big data analytics to better understand how patients and caregivers can benefit from online conversations. Here, we sketch out a new network-based theory of social medical capital that will open up new avenues for conducting large-scale network studies of online health communities and for devising effective policy interventions aimed at improving patients’ self-care and health.


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Please cite as:

Panzarasa P, Griffiths C, Sastry N, De Simoni A

Social Medical Capital: How Patients and Caregivers Can Benefit From Online Social Interactions

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(7):e16337

DOI: 10.2196/16337

PMID: 32720910

PMCID: 7420688

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