Twitter connections among local health departments as potential pathways for dissemination

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1596-1605

  Harris, Jenine K ^a   Brownson, Ross C ^b   Bell, Ryan A ^b   Maier, Ryan C ^b   Cohen, Elisia ^c   Mueller, Nancy ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; GRAPH THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EVIDENCE-BASED; EXPONENTIAL RANDOM GRAPH MODEL; EXPOSED TO; SOCIAL MEDIA;

HEALTH;

EID: 84902297174     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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