Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information

Rathimala Kannan; Kannan Ramakrishnan; Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo

doi:10.1145/3305160.3305163

Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information

Rathimala Kannan, Kannan Ramakrishnan, Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo

Multimedia University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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Abstract

Despite the fact the government agencies and healthcare organizations make numerous efforts to prevent and control dengue epidemic, still it is a challenge. Lack of citizen's awareness of the infectious disease is one of the reasons that hampers their effectiveness. The need to re-examine and understand how the public at large view the dengue monitoring and prevention efforts motivates this study. Knowing the popularity and reach of social networking sites (SNS), understanding their strengths and weaknesses as health education tool would be a timely call. This empirical study aims to integrate social support theory to an existing theoretical model to test the users' intention to use SNS for healthcare and wellness information focusing on dengue related information. The current study found that Malaysians preferred to use SNS for dengue related healthcare and wellness information. This result suggests that dengue related monitoring and prevention activities can consider to use SNS as a potential communication tool to increase its reach to citizens.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	204-207
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366427
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3305160.3305163
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - and its Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019 - Bali, Indonesia Duration: 10 Jan 2019 → 13 Jan 2019

Conference

Conference	2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - and its Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019
Country/Territory	Indonesia
City	Bali
Period	10/01/19 → 13/01/19

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.

Keywords

Civic engagement
Dengue
Malaysia
Public healthcare
Social networking sites

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Kannan, R., Ramakrishnan, K., & Ojo, A. O. (2019). Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information. In Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019 (pp. 204-207). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3305160.3305163

Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information. / Kannan, Rathimala; Ramakrishnan, Kannan; Ojo, Adedapo Oluwaseyi.
Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 204-207.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Kannan, R, Ramakrishnan, K & Ojo, AO 2019, Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information. in Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 204-207, 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - and its Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019, Bali, Indonesia, 10/01/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3305160.3305163

Kannan R, Ramakrishnan K, Ojo AO. Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information. In Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. p. 204-207 doi: 10.1145/3305160.3305163

Kannan, Rathimala ; Ramakrishnan, Kannan ; Ojo, Adedapo Oluwaseyi. / Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information. Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management, ICSIM 2019 - Workshop 2019 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, ICBDSC 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. pp. 204-207

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Social networking sites as communication tool for dengue related healthcare and wellness information

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