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  2. Social media use in health awareness - Wikipedia

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    Social media is proven to be useful for various chronic and incurable diseases where patients form groups and connect for sharing of knowledge. [4] Similarly, health professionals, health institutions, and various other individuals and organizations have their own social media accounts for health information, awareness, guidance, or motivation for their patients. [5]

  3. Health campaign - Wikipedia

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    A health campaign is a type of media campaign which attempts to promote public health by making new health interventions available. The organizers of a health campaign frequently use education along with an opportunity to participate further, such as when a vaccination campaign seeks both to educate the public about a vaccine and provide the vaccine to people who want it.

  4. Public health - Wikipedia

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    Public health was important elsewhere in Latin America in consolidating state power and integrating marginalized populations into the nation-state. In Colombia, public health was a means for creating and implementing ideas of citizenship. [183] In Bolivia, a similar push came after their 1952 revolution. [184]

  5. Health communication - Wikipedia

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    Health communication is the study and practice of communicating promotional health information, such as in public health campaigns, health education, and between doctor and patient. [1] The purpose of disseminating health information is to influence personal health choices by improving health literacy.

  6. Behavior change (public health) - Wikipedia

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    A good public health intervention is not only defined by the results they create, but also the number of levels it hits on the socioecological model [6] (individual, interpersonal, community and/or environment). The challenge that public health interventions face is generalizability: what may work in one community may not work in others.

  7. Social marketing - Wikipedia

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    The impact of such social marketing campaigns are not always well documented. [15] One study found that health awareness days can potentially raise knowledge about the causes of public health problems and promote an environment that supports policy changes, but noted that the accuracy of information shared is critical. [16]

  8. Public health intervention - Wikipedia

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    A public health intervention is any effort or policy that attempts to improve mental and physical health on a population level. Public health interventions may be run by a variety of organizations, including governmental health departments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Common types of interventions include screening programs, [1 ...

  9. Catch It, Bin It, Kill It - Wikipedia

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    "Catch it, Bin it, Kill it" is a slogan [2] and the name associated with Public Health England's (PHE) annual public awareness campaigns for flu and norovirus. [3] [4] [5] The slogan appears on a downloadable poster, published by PHE and particularly targeted at primary care services in the UK.