The use of social media in public health surveillance
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https://doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.1.019Abstract
This perspective summarizes the different uses of social media data for public health surveillance and such data’s strengths and limitations. Social media-based surveillance systems can be used to monitor information, detect outbreaks, forecast disease trends, monitor emergency situations, and monitor general disease awareness and reactions to official health communications.
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26-06-2015
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Fung IC-H, Tse ZTH, Fu K-W. The use of social media in public health surveillance. Western Pac Surveill Response J [Internet]. 2015 Jun. 26 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];6(2). Available from: https://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/article/view/319
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