ReviewJournal of global health2020
Effective approaches to public engagement with global health topics.
Review in Journal of global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Elements Influencing User Engagement in Social Media Posts on Lifestyle Risk Factors: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Engaging the public with antimicrobial resistance through social media videos-a content analysis study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Ideometrics: a scientific approach to generating, evaluating, and prioritising ideas.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- The positive impact of introducing public engagement as a self-directed learning strategy in undergraduate nervous system education.Medical education online · 2024Article
- Animations to communicate public health prevention messages: a realist review protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Revisiting global health education: The engagement of medical students.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services, and treatments.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Do health professionals' attitudes towards alcohol use matter for alcohol prevention efforts? Results from the WIRUS-OHS study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Digital Formats for Community Participation in Health Promotion and Prevention Activities: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Analysis of public engagement with ten major global health topics on a social network profile and a newspaper website.Journal of global health · 2020Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
background"Public engagement" in science is a term that covers a broad spectrum of activities undertaken by the scientific community. The precise definitions are constantly evolving to incorporate new means of engagement, facilitated by emerging technologies. Global health research is amenable to community engagement and popularization, but it is difficult to know which strategies work best to attract considerable attention from the public.
methodsThis is a review of the articles and documents that address the question of public engagement with topics in medical sciences, particularly in global health. Semantic searches were conducted using Google Scholar rather than indexed databases due to poor indexing of the topic. More than 1000 titles were screened and 48 articles were retained as most useful. It then moves to a more specific topic of the online public engagement in global health.
resultsThe review presents the attempts to define public engagement in science and its general importance, particularly in the field of global health. Examples of the latter include tobacco use, vaccination, and maternal and child health. In reviewing effective approaches to public engagement in global health through online video campaigns, it studies the examples of crowdfunding, USAID's First Public Engagement Campaign, World Health Organization's Social Media Campaigns and the impact of Global Health Media Project.
conclusionsThis review reveals three key gaps in the understanding of determinants of effective online public engagement in global health. The mixed results of traditional mass media campaigns in global health emphasise the calls for more research on message content. A framework for effective message content would help in both raising awareness of key issues and creating behaviour change in the general public. Moreover, it is surprising to find no formal research on what constitutes effective video content in global health. Finally, few studies considered important metrics to track in social media campaigns. There is a clear need to investigate which video features are effective in global health online public engagement. Success will be defined through key video marketing metrics and tracked in order to isolate effective content features.
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