Twitter and public health (Part 1): How individual public health professionals use Twitter for professional development

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Hart, Mark ^a   Stetten, Nichole E ^a   Islam, Sabrina ^a   Pizarro, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogging; Public health; Social media; Technology transfer; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052018251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.6795     Document Type: Article

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