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'We have the internet in our hands': Bangladeshi college students' use of ICTs for health information.

Linda WaldmanTanvir AhmedNigel ScottShahinoor AkterHilary StandingSabrina Rasheed
Published in: Globalization and health (2018)
Personal searches for SRH and the resultant online information shared through discrete, personal face-to-face discussions has some potential to challenge social norms. This is particularly so for women students, as sharing information may enable them to bypass gatekeepers and make decisions about reproduction. This suggests that digital health information seeking may be exercising a disruptive effect within the health sector. However, the extent of this disruption may depend, not on students' mobile phone usage, but on the degree to which powerful new gatekeepers are able to retain control over and market SRH information through students' peer-to-peer sharing.
Keyphrases
  • health information
  • social media
  • high school
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • polycystic ovary syndrome
  • type diabetes
  • public health
  • metabolic syndrome
  • pregnant women
  • skeletal muscle
  • adipose tissue
  • breast cancer risk