Toward real-Time infoveillance of twitter health messages

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1009-1014

  Colditz, Jason B ^a   Chu, Kar Hai ^a   Emery, Sherry L ^b   Larkin, Chandler R ^a   James, A Everette ^c   Welling, Joel ^d   Primack, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; SMOKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; WATERPIPE TOBACCO; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85050225241     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304497     Document Type: Review

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