This document discusses how social media and new technologies can be leveraged for public health goals. It argues that public health approaches need to shift from top-down models to more collaborative models that engage citizens and different sectors. The document outlines various social media tools and platforms that can be used for content creation, collaboration, community-building, and collective action. It provides examples of how these tools have been used for issues like citizen journalism, crisis response, and open data initiatives.
Remixing Public Health: Tools for Public Health Innovation
1. Re-mixing Public Health: A walk (long) through Open Health & the Emerging Social Mediascape Jody Ranck, DrPH Principal Investigator, Public Health Institute July 2009
51. Collaboration: co-creation of knowledge Jason Corburn shows how citizens can challenge dominant risk assessment paradigms used by EPA and scientists. Citizens as co-producers of expertise or citizen-scientists
204. Social Status Education Physical Environment Parenting Quality of Life Physical Health Incomes Work Mental Health Determinants of Health: How do we design for this? Source: Welling Project, Scotland