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An overview of current and potential use of information and communication technologies for immunization promotion among adolescents

Information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the Internet or mobile telephony, have become an important part of the life of today’s adolescents and their main means of procuring information. The new generation of the Internet based on social-networking technologies, Web 2.0, is increasi...

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Autores principales: Amicizia, Daniela, Domnich, Alexander, Gasparini, Roberto, Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi, Lai, Piero Luigi, Panatto, Donatella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23954845
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/hv.26010
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author Amicizia, Daniela
Domnich, Alexander
Gasparini, Roberto
Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
Lai, Piero Luigi
Panatto, Donatella
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description Information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the Internet or mobile telephony, have become an important part of the life of today’s adolescents and their main means of procuring information. The new generation of the Internet based on social-networking technologies, Web 2.0, is increasingly used for health purposes by both laypeople and health professionals. A broad spectrum of Web 2.0 applications provides several opportunities for healthcare workers, in that they can reach large numbers of teenagers in an individualized way and promote vaccine-related knowledge in an interactive and entertaining manner. These applications, namely social-networking and video-sharing websites, wikis and microblogs, should be monitored in order to identify current attitudes toward vaccination, to reply to vaccination critics and to establish a real-time dialog with users. Moreover, the ubiquity of mobile telephony makes it a valuable means of involving teenagers in immunization promotion, especially in developing countries.
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spelling pubmed-41620622014-09-15 An overview of current and potential use of information and communication technologies for immunization promotion among adolescents Amicizia, Daniela Domnich, Alexander Gasparini, Roberto Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Lai, Piero Luigi Panatto, Donatella Hum Vaccin Immunother Review Information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the Internet or mobile telephony, have become an important part of the life of today’s adolescents and their main means of procuring information. The new generation of the Internet based on social-networking technologies, Web 2.0, is increasingly used for health purposes by both laypeople and health professionals. A broad spectrum of Web 2.0 applications provides several opportunities for healthcare workers, in that they can reach large numbers of teenagers in an individualized way and promote vaccine-related knowledge in an interactive and entertaining manner. These applications, namely social-networking and video-sharing websites, wikis and microblogs, should be monitored in order to identify current attitudes toward vaccination, to reply to vaccination critics and to establish a real-time dialog with users. Moreover, the ubiquity of mobile telephony makes it a valuable means of involving teenagers in immunization promotion, especially in developing countries. Landes Bioscience 2013-12-01 2013-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4162062/ /pubmed/23954845 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/hv.26010 Text en Copyright © 2013 Landes Bioscience http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The article may be redistributed, reproduced, and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the original source is properly cited.
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