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Factors Influencing User Engagement of Health Information Disseminated by Chinese Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on WeChat: Observational Study.

Yan ZhangTingsong XiaLingfeng HuangMingjuan YinMingwei SunJingxiao HuangYu NiJindong Ni
Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2019)
How social media can be used to best achieve health information dissemination and public health outcomes is a topic of much discussion and study in the public health community. Given the lack of related studies based on WeChat or official accounts, we conducted this study and found that article content, article type, communication skills, number of marketing elements, article length, and title type were associated with user engagement. Our study may provide public health and community leaders with insight into the diffusion of important health topics of concern.
Keyphrases
  • health information
  • social media
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • risk assessment
  • electronic health record
  • drug induced
  • global health