Chinese social media reaction to information about 42 notifiable infectious diseases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Fung, Isaac Chun Hai ^a   Hao, Yi ^a   Cai, Jingxian ^a   Ying, Yuchen ^b   Schaible, Braydon James ^a   Yu, Cynthia Mengxi ^c,d   Tse, Zion Tsz Ho ^e   Fu, King Wa ^c  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biostatistics Jiann Ping Hsu College of Public Health Georgia Southern University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; BLOGGING; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE NOTIFICATION;

BLOGGING; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84929180308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126092     Document Type: Article

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