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

Pietro PanzarasaChristopher J GriffithsNishanth R SastryAnna De Simoni
Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)
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 outline 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 devising effective policy interventions aimed at improving patients' self-care and health.
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