Trails methodological health and social media: an approximation of the scientific literature on the topic.

Abstract

The appropriation for Health Information Technology and Communication (ICT) increasingly popular, resulting in personal uses, academic and institutional as many, when wetreat the sharing of information and experiences on health. In this context, we are interested in mapping the investigationsthat relate to healt hand popular sites of “social networks” such as Facebook and Twitter, one of the greatest expressions of this sociability average over the internet. As a first approximation of the field, nstudies which had the object hasstate of theart orreview the scientific literature related to healt hand ICTs, especially social media. As well as studies and literature from other areas and also nationalities that assist in identifying some methodological paths to tread, in a field still in consolidation as researchinvolving the internet and health.