Health tweets: An exploration of health promotion on twitter

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Donelle, Lorie ^a   Booth, Richard G ^b  

^a School of Nursing and School of Health Studies in London   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Determinants of health; Health; Health promotion; Informatics; Internet; Microblogging; Qualitative research; Social media; Social networking; Technology; Tweet; Twitter ; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873536061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10913734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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