Geospatial distribution of local health department tweets and online searches about ebola during the 2014 ebola outbreak

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 287-290

  Wong, Roger ^a   Harris, Jenine K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; emergency preparedness; local health department; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DEVICES; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047492082     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2017.69     Document Type: Article

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