Action Tweets Linked to Reduced County-Level HIV Prevalence in the United States: Online Messages and Structural Determinants

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1256-1264

  Ireland, Molly E ^a,c   Chen, Qijia ^b,c   Schwartz, H Andrew ^b,c,d   Ungar, Lyle H ^b,c   Albarracin, Dolores ^b,c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

General action goals; Health; HIV; Language; Twitter

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LANGUAGE; MODEL; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES; ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREVALENCE; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949507935     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: 15733254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-015-1252-2     Document Type: Article

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