Social Media and Health Communication

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute a paper to this upcoming Special Issue in the international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal Healthcare, managed by MDPI. The Special Issue will be themed “Social Media for Health Communications” and will focus on how social media is used for communicative purposes across a diverse range of health-promoting fields. Social media sites (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, etc.) have dramatically modified our ways of life, and these developments need to be captured and disseminated to inform insights for health-promoting professions.

Social media platforms provide an accessible method of open communication to allow for constant flows of public information and debate relating to health issues. Social media allows users to bypass typical constraints in relation to location, time, and affordability to collectively develop knowledge on key professional issues. Consequently, social media is an emergent area of research across all disciplines of health, and investigations are required to help develop pertinent practices to collectively promote health.

This Special Issue is designed for researchers to shed emerging insights through experimental and theoretical investigations into how social media platforms are and can be used for informative purposes to improve the practices of health promoters. You are welcome to forward this invitation to any colleagues working in health-promoting fields who are interested in utilizing and investigating social media communications. We look forward to your thoughtful contribution to this important Special Issue.

Dr. Brendon Hyndman
Prof. Stephen Harvey
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.