Bridging Online and Offline Social Networks to Promote Health Innovation: The CoNEKTR Model

The first decade of the 21st century saw parallel trends that transformed our conceptualization of population health: the shift of burden from acute to chronic disease as the primary driver of healthcare spending; the proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICT) that connect people to ideas and each other on a global scale; and the recognition that social networks impact ABSTRACT

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