Health Communication in a Global Context: Can e-health provide better health experiences and outcomes for patients?

Health Communication in a
Global Context

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Can e-health provide better health experiences and outcomes for patients? Discuss with
evidence and examples................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health is the concern for all the people throughout their life, from birth to old age. The
prevalence of communicable disease and pandemic like situations demands more awareness
among people regarding their health and wellness. The health communications are necessary in
order to communicate the possible effects of a disease including symptoms, types, severity,
precaution, care and treatment in general public. Methods of health communication involve
direct conservations with health practitioners, health awareness campaigns, media, self-
diagnosing by online resources like social media and other platforms. The essay is based on
understanding of media for health communication. Online social networking is being used daily
for communication as well as in the free time, in UK 57.6 million people are active on social
media by February, 2022 (Active social media users in the United Kingdom (UK), 2022). The
essay describes e- health in providing better outcomes in patient health experience. The social
media can increase the reach of people and can be beneficial in influencing the people regarding
their health and well being. The Covid-19 pandemic have witnessed the necessity for creating
awareness in public regarding health and well ness which is further elaborated in essay.
MAIN BODY
Can e-health provide better health experiences and outcomes for patients? Discuss with evidence
and examples
e- health have emerged as the only beneficial technological tool in delivering the health
care to patients during pandemic situations like Covid-19. The large portion of Population was
staying at home during Covid-19 pandemic. People were dependent on social media and other
media technologies for keeping the update and to staying connected with each other. The
information regarding the progression of Covid disease, its signs and symptoms, precautions,
treatments plans and interventions along with its rate of prevalence was not accessible to all via
during the pandemic. Traditional media including magazines, TV, radios and newspaper along
with social media were the only accessible methods for public. The magazine and newspapers
were restricted in many cities in order to stop the chain of prevalence of virus. Newspapers due
to their prolong use are trustable by many people so the communication regarding health and
creating awareness in general public about health and wellness could be effective with the help
of newspapers (Finset and et. al., 2020). The traditional media like Radio have not been used
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