Understanding health care social media use from different stakeholder perspectives: A content analysis of an online health community

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Lu, Yingjie ^a   Wu, Yang ^a   Liu, Jingfang ^b   Li, Jia ^c   Zhang, Pengzhu ^d  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

Author keywords

Health care social media; Sentiment analysis; Stakeholder analysis; Topic analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION;

DATA MINING; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85018725651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7087     Document Type: Article

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