Integrating Social Media Monitoring into Public Health Emergency Response Operations

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 775-780

  Hadi, Tamer A ^a   Fleshler, Keren ^b  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b Consumer Reports ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

emergency response; Incident Command System; public health; social media

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NEW YORK; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION;

AWARENESS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84970024476     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2016.39     Document Type: Article

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