Engagement with Health Agencies on Twitter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Sanmitra ^a,c   Srinivasan, Padmini ^a   Polgreen, Phil ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c LINGUAMATICS LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNITED STATES; GOVERNMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES;

EID: 84911901889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112235     Document Type: Article

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