Open AccessHealth Communication in Nutrition for Cancer Prevention in Thailand
Author(s) -
Kamon Chaiyasit,
Wittayatorn Tokaew,
Karn Boonsiri
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
functional foods in health and disease/journal of functional foods in health and disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.275
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2378-7007
pISSN - 2160-3855
DOI - 10.31989/ffhd.v11i4.792
Subject(s) - cancer prevention , affect (linguistics) , cancer , social media , medicine , the internet , scale (ratio) , environmental health , health communication , internet privacy , gerontology , psychology , computer science , communication , world wide web , physics , quantum mechanics
Cancer has been ranked first of the Thai mortality causes. As dietary factors affect the risk of cancer, communication is crucial for providing beneficial nutritional knowledge for patients to change their daily diets accurately. The communication could be through the use of the internet, as there is currently media that could be easily accessed at a large scale. As a result, modern technology could facilitate the interaction between citizens and nutritional professionals, leading to healthy lifestyles. For example, the nutritional labels of products could be read by using IoT, which is a mobile application. It is also believed that devices will be developed to help prevent cancer in the future.Keywords: health communication, nutrition for cancer prevention, IoT, social media nutrition, nutrition labeling