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ADHD, BPD & Entertainment Education
We all know that social media has
methods of learning by high school
an impact on all aspects of life,
students. As they motivate student
including
engagement
health
knowledge
and
and
improve
communication between peers and
behaviour.
educators encouraging the growth of The use of social media to spread
collaborative learning environments,
health information is now a widely
and self-learning methods.
used cost-effective approach that allows
access
of
innumerable
Social
media
can
also
numbers of people to an unlimited
relationships
amount
and aid in advocating for health
of
knowledge.
Through
among
bolster
social media, we can send messages
policy,
in multiple languages with different
planning,
content
populations
specialists can use social media to
including those who are hard to
publish media tools, guidelines, and
reach. Additionally, ordinary people
best practices.
can exchange health information
However, the use of social media has
and advice via various platforms
its negative consequences notably
including Facebook, YouTube, and
spreading misinformation.
to
different
through
including and
its
stakeholders development,
reform.
Healthcare
various
modalities (e.g., text, image, video, and
gif).
facilitate
Social the
networks
adoption
of
also health
behaviors through homophily and clustering, in other words, social reinforcement, especially when the behavior
is
difficult,
costly,
or
unfamiliar. Furthermore, Facebook and Twitter have been identified as preferred
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