Disease detection or public opinion reflection? content analysis of tweets, other social media, and online newspapers during the measles outbreak in the Netherlands in 2013

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Mollema, Liesbeth ^a   Harmsen, Irene Anhai ^a,b   Broekhuizen, Emma ^c   Clijnk, Rutger ^a   De Melker, Hester ^a   Paulussen, Theo ^d   Kok, Gerjo ^b   Ruiter, Robert ^b   Das, Enny ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Infectious disease outbreak; Internet; Measles; Netherlands; Vaccination; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MEASLES; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEASLES; NETHERLANDS; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL MEDIA; VACCINATION;

EID: 84930332279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3863     Document Type: Article

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