title: Using social media to engage adolescents and young adults with their health.
abstract: We focus on the potential of social media related to the health of adolescent and young adults, who are nearly ubiquitous social media users but difficult to engage with their health and relatively low healthcare utilizers. Opportunities to better engage adolescents and young adults through social media exist in healthcare delivery, health education and health policy. However, challenges remain for harnessing social media, including making a clear value proposition and developing evidence-based frameworks for measuring the impact of social media on health.
authors.affiliation: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program University of Pennsylvania, 1303 Blockley Hall 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA ; Penn Social Media and Health Innovation Lab, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Charlene A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program University of Pennsylvania, 1303 Blockley Hall 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA ; Penn Social Media and Health Innovation Lab, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Raina M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Merchant
authors.affiliation: Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team, Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Megan A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Moreno
keywords: Adolescents; Social media; Young adults