Assessing vaccination sentiments with online social media: Implications for infectious disease dynamics and control

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Salathé, Marcel ^a   Khandelwal, Shashank ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISEASE DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS AND CONTROL; HEALTH BEHAVIORS; HEALTH OUTCOMES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; POPULATION HEALTH; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STRONG CORRELATION; TIME-PERIODS;

VACCINES;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MASS MEDIUM; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCORING SYSTEM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80055065085     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002199     Document Type: Article

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