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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Exploring the Social Media on the Communication Professionals in Public Health. Spanish Official Medical Colleges Case Study.

Carlos de Las Heras-Pedrosa, Dolores Rando-Cueto, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, Francisco J Paniagua-Rojano

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. COVID-19, Fake News, and Vaccines: Should Regulation Be Implemented?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  10. Resilience and Anti-Stress during COVID-19 Isolation in Spain: An Analysis through Audiovisual Spots.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carlos de Las Heras-PedrosaDepartment of Advertising and Public Relations, Universidad de Málaga 29071 Málaga, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2738-4177
Dolores Rando-CuetoDepartment of Advertising and Public Relations, Universidad de Málaga 29071 Málaga, Spain.
Carmen Jambrino-MaldonadoDepartment of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8444-0967
Francisco J Paniagua-RojanoDepartment of Advertising and Public Relations, Universidad de Málaga 29071 Málaga, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7376-4536
Universidad de Málaga · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze the role that social media have on the practice of health professionals working in information and communication department of Spanish official medical college. Social media in health fields have experienced growing participation of users and are increasingly considered a credible form of communication. This paper examines the use of social media as communication tool by the Official Medical Colleges (OMC) of Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics, in 2019 there were 267,995 registered medical professionals in the 52 OMC in Spain. This research is based on a qualitative methodological technique through semi-structured interviews, with the aim of identifying the profiles of the people who lead the information in the professional organizations of the OMC. Of the colleges, 73.07% participated. The findings show that information is essential for the OMC and most of them have at least one experienced communication professional. Social media are essential tool in their work and Twitter (87.5%) and Facebook (81.3%) are considered the most relevant social media according to their interests. These tools are believed to be very useful for informing, establishing relationships and listening to users.

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Public HealthSocial MediaAdultAgedCommunicationFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchSpainhealth communicationpublic healthsocial mediaSpanish official medical collegesstakeholders

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PMID32640598
PMCPMC7369915
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