Health Risk Information Engagement and Amplification on Social Media: News About an Emerging Pandemic on Facebook

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 332-339

  Strekalova, Yulia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

information behavior; information engagement; risk communication; social amplification of communication; social media listening

Indexed keywords

EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85019000876     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198116660310     Document Type: Article

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