Dynamics of health agency response and public engagement in public health emergency: A case study of CDC tweeting patterns during the 2016 zika epidemic

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Chen, Shi ^a   Xu, Qian ^b   Buchenberger, John ^a   Bagavathi, Arunkumar ^a   Fair, Gabriel ^a   Shaikh, Samira ^a   Krishnan, Siddharth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centers for disease control and prevention; Infodemiology; Infoveillance; Public engagement; Social media; Time series analysis; Twitter; Zika epidemic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85067410890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/10827     Document Type: Article

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