Public health awareness of autoimmune diseases after the death of a celebrity

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1911-1917

  Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi ^a   Watad, Abdulla ^b,c   Brigo, Francesco ^d,e   Adawi, Mohammad ^f   Amital, Howard ^b,c   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Department of Medicine B ^*  (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d 'F Tappeiner' Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^f BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Big Data; Harold Ramis; Social network; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AWARENESS; DEATH; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEARCH ENGINE; VASCULITIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; INFORMATION SEEKING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AWARENESS; FAMOUS PERSONS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85006721274     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-016-3513-5     Document Type: Article

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