Communicating Ebola through social media and electronic news media outlets: A cross-sectional study

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 470-478

  Househ, Mowafa ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Ebola; electronic news media; social media; Twitter; virus

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL MEDIA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84981356265     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458214568037     Document Type: Article

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