Professional Use of Social Media by Pharmacists: A Qualitative Study.

Arcelio Benetoli Timothy Frank Chen Marion Schaefer Betty Bouad Chaar Parisa Aslani

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2016)

Participants used social media in a professional capacity, specifically for accessing and sharing health and professional information among peers. Pharmacists, as medicines experts, should take a leading role in contributing to health information dissemination in these user-friendly virtual environments, to reach not only other health care professionals but also health consumers.

Keyphrases

health information
social media
healthcare
public health
mental health
primary care
climate change
low cost
human health