Introduction

The people have received health information from many sources such as the physician, family
members, acquaintances and mass media. Since the 20th century, the dependence of people on the
Internet search engines has been increased, because these tools have allowed access to all the web
pages around the world. However, the social media in specific had revolutionized the health
communication due to it being a two-way and interactive communication between health experts
and the public which makes it much more effective towards educating the society which will be
further discussed in this presentation.

Body

Main Point 1: Patient education can reduce the treatment costs greatly through helping patients to
manage chronic conditions of the diseases.

Supporting point :

The use of effective educational materials for patient education contributes to understanding the
complexities of medical processes for the patient and reducing the level of stress and anxiety

Increased knowledge of the patient can develop treatment outcome of acute and chronic diseases.
For example, in the event of a disease, people are motivated to seek treatment and follow it

Main Point 2: web-based health education have been successful to improve knowledge, health and
management of a disease.

Supporting point :

For example, using the Internet helps to understand the cancer patients' better health outcomes and
also reduce medical uncertainty and depression
web-based tools used to care the patients with asthma, support decision programs about prostate
cancer, and diabetes patient education have assisted in improving knowledge and understanding of
the disease.

help the patients make informed decisions about his disease and acquire self-care skills

Main Point 3: closer social network ties, increased emotional support, and reduced anxieties and
stigma

Supporting point:

patients and health consumers were using SM to engage in socially-supportive activity and
conversations

Conclusion

In conclusion, health communication via social media is very effective to get the information across
the public in this era where everyone scrolls through their social media platforms up to 70% of their
time. Health communication aims to convey important health information to the public by
professionals. Therefore, it should always be expanded according to where the public can be
reached. Social media can be harnessed to best achieve public health outcomes if there are more
room for it to be done along with professionals using their presence to verify the health information
that circulates around the public.