Methods using social media and search queries to predict infectious disease outbreaks

Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 343-348

  Seo, Dong Woo ^a   Shin, Soo Yong ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Digital syndromic surveillance system; Disease outbreak; Search engine; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043364874     PISSN: 20933681     EISSN: 2093369X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4258/hir.2017.23.4.343     Document Type: Article

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