The measles vaccination narrative in twitter: A quantitative analysis

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Radzikowski, Jacek ^a   Stefanidis, Anthony ^a   Jacobsen, Kathryn H ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^a   Crooks, Andrew ^a   Delamater, Paul L ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Geographic characteristics; GIS (geographic information systems); Health informatics; Health narrative; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091386099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.5059     Document Type: Article

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