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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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A Citizen’s Response Corps for Digital Health

Society for Participatory Medicine

Tom Ferguson , highlights how COVID-19 long haulers are the most cutting-edge example, and points to how their methods can be applied to 21st century public health challenges. The answer was in organic peer-to-peer health communities, and the Patient Led Research Collaborative was the most effective version she had ever seen.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.