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  • Telemental health in biomedicine and Ayurveda : an analysis of online health forums in Slovenia and India
    Ahlin, Tanja, 1983- ; Brijnath, Bianca
    Despite little or no legal regulation, millions of people worldwide are participating in online health forums, searching for health-related information and advice as well as social support through ... networking with both health professionals and other patients suffering from similar conditions. Increasing participation in such forums shows that there is a great need for such provision of health care, yet little research has been conducted on the topic in order to describe these practices and evaluate their impact on health-seeking behavior. This contribution compares and contrasts the presentations of depression on two online health forums, the Slovenian biomedical MedOverNet portal and the Indian Žyurvedic forum Divya Yoga Mandir Trust. The data indicate that geography, culture, language, and medical epistemologies are significant in the articulation of internal affective states and depression
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2012
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 31253085