Using digital surveillance to examine the impact of public figure pancreatic cancer announcements on media and search query outcomes

Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Monographs

Volumn , Issue 47, 2013, Pages 188-194

  Noar, Seth M ^a,b   Ribisl, Kurt M ^b,c   Althouse, Benjamin M ^d   Willoughby, Jessica Fitts ^e   Ayers, John W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MASS MEDIUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PUBLIC FIGURE; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICS;

FAMOUS PERSONS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84892449020     PISSN: 10526773     EISSN: 17456614     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgt017     Document Type: Article

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