A brief presentation about importance of social support and social networking in improving health outcomes, many times we tend to underestimate or feel not confidence about ourselves or our existence, this presentation focus on how important social support including you as an indivisual can help improve others' health outcomes and health behaviors. not necessarily have to be a doctor to be helpful to others.

1. Social Networks, Social Support & Health Behavior

2. Tasneem AlAhmari

3. Objectives:
1. Social Networks, Social Support & Health Behavior: Definitions & Terminology
1. Relationship of Social Networks and Social Support to Health
1. Evidence on Influence of Social Relationships
1. Social Network & Social Support Interventions,
1. Health Education and Health Behavior Applications

4. web‐based services that allow individuals to
(1) construct a public or semi‐public profile within a bounded system,
(2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection,
(3) view and traverse their list of connections those made by others within the system.
The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.

5. - Efforts to aid individuals or that encourage their sense
of attachment to significant groups.
- more social support have been found to have greater
wellbeing and physical health

6. - the activity undertaken by individuals for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing their health,
preventing health problems,or achieving a positive body image.
- It is not limited to healthy people trying to stay healthy, but also includes the physically handicapped
and persons with chronic diseases who seek to control, minimize, or contain their affliction through
positive forms of health behavior, such as diet, exercise, and avoiding smoking.

7. Relationship of Social Networks and Social Support to Health

8. Evidence on Influence of Social Relationships

11. Conclusion
Despite these limitations, the present study contributes to our understanding of how social support influences academic
engagement among Latino youth.
Given the contrasting findings between our study and previous cross-sectional work, this study underscores the importance
of longitudinal research.
Latino subgroups reported varying levels of academic engagement, with Cuban youth reporting the highest levels.
Teacher support emerged as a consistent predictor of academic engagement, particularly for Mexican American youth.
Family support was also important for promoting academic engagement, whereas peer support had both positive and
negative impacts.
Taken together, results underscore the need to examine subgroup differences among Latino youth and suggest that
programs aiming to improve school performance should tailor content for diverse Latino subgroups.

12. Social Network & Social Support Interventions

13. Intervention

14. Outcomes

15. Health Education and Health Behavior Applications

17. Results
The results indicate that more time spent viewing messages promoting health behaviors led to a shift in
attitudes toward the suggested health behavior.
Somewhat surprisingly, this effect did not depend on source credibility
exposure to both messages from a highly credible source and messages from low-credibility sources had
this effect.

18. Results
Relying on high-credibility source cues will not suffice,
no evidence emerged for attitude shifts resulting from exposure to messages opposing the behaviors.
participants did not engage much in the related behaviors, variation in behavior frequencies and behavior–
standard discrepancies still predicted selective exposure, which in turn produced attitude shifts

19. Questions, Comments?