Online health monitoring using facebook advertisement audience estimates in the United States: Evaluation study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Mejova, Yelena ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^a   Fernandez Luque, Luis ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Infodemiology; Internet; Public health; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047723485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7217     Document Type: Article

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