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Health 2.0 is an emerging concept of health care that applies Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, Wikies, RSS, tagging, social networks, virtual worlds, etc.), under the principles of open source and user generation of content, to promote collaboration and information/content creation and sharing by the health community (including patients, health-care professionals, health carers, health science students, and other members), to personalize health care, and to promote health education (Doherty 2008; Hughes et al. 2008; Van De Belt et al. 2010).
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Health 2.0 emphasizes user-generated health care that enables a consumer to become an active and responsible partner in his/her own health and care pathway (Bos et al. 2008a; Hughes et al. 2008), using networked digital technologies, primarily the Internet (Hughes et al. 2008). Although sharing the similar stakeholders and the principal tool to use – the Internet – with eHealth, Health 2.0/Medicine 2.0...
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Yu, P. (2019). Health 2.0. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_445-1
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