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      Social Media and Health Policy

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          The current era is characterized by the vibrant and rapidly evolving communication technologies. Communication in any form has evolved and now includes media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to report a few. Communicating and consuming information has shifted from the more traditional ways to new ones as part of this communication evolution. Cancer is an area of healthcare where such social media have been championed either to promote public awareness and drive campaigns or influence political decision-making. Although health-care lags behind many other industries in adopting social media as a part of a business or policy strategy, the increasing engagement of patients, the public, and the policymakers in social media raised the need for integrating these tools as a part of an overall program to support the strategic imperatives of the health care. As these and other new ways to communicate are introduced to the world and injected into our cultural and political systems, the question that raises here is: “How successful are social media in influencing health policy?”

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs
                Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs
                APJON
                Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing
                Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd (India )
                2347-5625
                2349-6673
                Jan-Mar 2019
                : 6
                : 1
                : 24-27
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Nursing, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
                [2 ]Department of Nursing, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Andreas Charalambous, Department of Nursing, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus Department of Nursing, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Tel: +35925002011; Fax: +35925002822 E-mail: andreas.charalambous@ 123456cut.ac.cy
                Article
                APJON-6-24
                10.4103/apjon.apjon_60_18
                6287377
                31da6c83-83ee-4901-933f-d24f55d40ff6
                Copyright: © 2018 Ann & Joshua Medical Publishing Co. Ltd

                This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

                History
                : 21 August 2018
                : 24 August 2018
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                cancer,facebook,health policy,social media,twitter
                cancer, facebook, health policy, social media, twitter

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