A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words: Public Engagement with the National Cancer Institute on Social Media

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 155-157

  Strekalova, Yulia A ^a   Krieger, Janice L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience engagement; Cancer research; Information dissemination; Social media

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941003506     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-015-0901-5     Document Type: Article

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