Cillóniz Catia, Greenslade Leith, Dominedò Cristina, Garcia-Vidal Carolina
August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, C/ Villarroel 170, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
Biomedical Research Networking Centers in Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), the Association of Support and Information for Family members and Patients with Pneumonia (NEUMOAI), Barcelona, Spain.
Pneumonia (Nathan). 2020 May 25;12:3. doi: 10.1186/s41479-020-00066-3. eCollection 2020.
Pneumonia is a serious health concern, but it does not attract the attention it warrants. Perhaps this is due to a lack of understanding of the real extent of this infectious disease in the general population.
A literature review was performed to assess the role of social networks as a means to raise awareness over pneumonia worldwide and increase its visibility.
In 2017, approximately 800,000 children under 5 years and approximately one million older people died of pneumonia. The importance of this pathology remains underestimated, despite the publication of many articles, comments, and editorials dedicated to rectifying the imbalance and to reduce its impact and associated mortality. Current misperceptions about pneumonia are alarming. Education and awareness are essential in the fight against this major public health threat; in this endeavor, social networks can be used to distribute science-based information about the disease and thus raise awareness among the general public about the dangers it poses. Approximately 3.8 billion people were using social media at the beginning of 2020, representing more than half of the world's population.
Social networks offer a valuable tool for disseminating scientific information about pneumonia, increasing its visibility, and in general raising awareness about this preventable disease.
肺炎是一个严重的健康问题，但它并未得到应有的关注。这可能是由于普通民众对这种传染病的实际严重程度缺乏了解。
进行了一项文献综述，以评估社交网络作为提高全球对肺炎的认识并增加其关注度的一种手段所起的作用。
2017年，约80万5岁以下儿童和约100万老年人死于肺炎。尽管发表了许多致力于纠正这种失衡、减少其影响和相关死亡率的文章、评论和社论，但这种疾病的重要性仍然被低估。当前对肺炎的误解令人担忧。教育和提高认识对于应对这一重大公共卫生威胁至关重要；在这一努力中，可以利用社交网络传播有关该疾病的科学信息，从而提高公众对其危险性的认识。2020年初，约38亿人在使用社交媒体，占世界人口的一半以上。
社交网络为传播有关肺炎的科学信息、提高其关注度以及总体上提高对这种可预防疾病的认识提供了一个有价值的工具。
