Making the most of a brave new world: Opportunities and considerations for using Twitter as a public health monitoring tool

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 109-111

  Stoové, Mark A ^a,b   Pedrana, Alisa E ^a  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; HIV; Prevention; Social media; Surveillance; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NOTE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900839676     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.03.008     Document Type: Note

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