The potential of social media and internet-based data in preventing and fighting infectious diseases: From internet to twitter

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 972, Issue , 2017, Pages 131-139

  Al Surimi, Khaled ^a,b   Khalifa, Mohammed ^c   Bahkali, Salwa ^d   EL Metwally, Ashraf ^a   Househ, Mowafa ^a  

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

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Princess Norah Bent Abdurrahman University ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Internet; Public health surveillance; Social media

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANXIETY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMPOWERMENT; FEAR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIRUS INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; VIRUS DISEASES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 85019417388     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/5584_2016_132     Document Type: Chapter

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