Kompas.com - Discussion about skin diseases ranked first in the discussions in cyberspace, especially twitter, social media trends at this time again. The disease is considered to be trivial such as acne, warts or the panu far more popular than the discussion of serious disease the cause of death, such as heart disease or tuberculosis.After skin diseases, diseases both in five major topics are most popular in the virtual world of digestive disorders, infectious diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis B and influenza, respiratory diseases, and mental illness.
In the sixth there is cardiovascular disease including hypertension, heart attacks and heart disease, the next is sleep disorders, cancer, metabolic diseases and in the order of 10 is the topic of women's diseases such as breast feeding, menopause and contraception.
The data reported by Asia Pacific Digital Health Index was developed by a global public relations firm, Edelman, which is the first index of its kind that seeks to identify the types of health discussions that took place online in the Asia Pacific region.
Of monitoring during the period October to December 2010, found more than 100,000 online conversations related to 17 types of disease in 154 internet channel.
Twitter urutam occupies the first of the cyberspace forum. Microblogging cheap and open to the public was indeed effective to discuss various topics, ranging from political issues, health, until the latest gossip.
Pretty hectic with the current discussion in the Internet media, according to Chadd McLisky, Chairman IndoPacific Edelman, reflecting a lack of community interaction with health professionals.
"It can not be denied that the Indonesian people active on the Internet and find out about their health related to all types and circumstances of disease, from diagnosis and choice of health care services until the products are recommended as well as health care providers," said Chadd.
This phenomenon, he argues, should be used by health professionals, including doctors or pharmaceutical companies to provide relevant information on diseases that are supported by scientific evidence.
source: (http://health.kompas.com/index.php/read/2011/03/15/10582685/Jerawat.dan.Kutil.Terpopuler.di.Dunia.Maya)
