Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook provide risk communicators with the
opportunity to quickly reach their constituents at the time of an emerging infectious disease …

Purpose For the same reasons that rural telehealth has shown promise for enhancing the
provision of care in underserved environments, social media recruitment may facilitate more …

Social media platforms have the potential to facilitate the dissemination of cancer prevention
and control messages following celebrity cancer diagnoses. However, cancer …

This chapter first documents the evolution of mediated risk communication. Then, it
demonstrates the latest developments and the challenges inherent in this new era through …

Public health threats require effective communication. Evaluating effectiveness during a
situation that requires emergency risk communication is difficult, however, because these …

During a public health crisis, officials need to communicate with the public quickly and
accurately. Social networking sites (SNS) have been identified as an appropriate channel for …