Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

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Maged N. Kamel Boulos · University of the Highlands and Islands

Dean Giustini · University of British Columbia

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Instagram and WhatsApp are two social media and networking services introduced in 2010. They are currently subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc., California, USA. Using evidence from the published literature and case reports indexed in PubMed and other sources, we present an overview of the various applications of Instagram and WhatsApp in health and healthcare. We also briefly describe the main issues surrounding the uses of these two apps in health and medicine.

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Mobile Health and mHealth Applications Social Media in Health Education Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

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Published in: Future Internet

Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 37-37

DOI: 10.3390/fi8030037

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 36.48

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