Twitter: A novel tool for studying the health and social needs of transgender communities

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Krueger, Evan A ^a   Young, Sean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Social media; Transgender; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994846667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.4113     Document Type: Article

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