This paper investigates the impacts of social media use in Danish public health care with respect to capabilities, interactions, orientations, and value distribution. Taking an exploratory approach, the paper draws on an array of quantitative and qualitative data, and puts forward four propositions: ...
Data from social media can provide insights about the response of the public to preventive health measures. For example, information from social media, digital platforms (eg, OpenTable, Google), and remote sensors is already being used to track the movement of populations and understand where indi...
Social media has the potential to provide rapid insights into unfolding public health emergencies such as infectious disease outbreaks. They can also be drawn upon for rapid, survey-based insights into various health topics. Social media has also been utilised by medical professionals for the purposes...
Public health officials keep an eye on wastewater as well. A variety of pathogens shed by infected people, who may be asymptomatic, can be identified in sewage. The CDC created theNational Wastewater Surveillance Systemto help track the virus that causes COVID-19. Since the pandemic, it's ex...
“Social media has become a widely accepted channel for public health information and risk communication by government officials, public health agencies, and the general population,” the researchers found in an assessment of the types of social media messages spread via Tweet during the pandemic...
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Social media has also been utilised by medical professionals for the purposes of sharing scholarly works, international collaboration, and engaging in policy debates.One benefit of using social media platforms to gain insight into health is that they have the ability to capture unfiltered public ...
With a growing body of research confirming the link between social media and poor mental health, it may be time to consider government regulations restricting who can create a social media account. If you must be 18 to buy tobacco products or 21 to drink alcohol, why can any 13-year-old ...
More direct access to such data could enable surveillance epidemiologists to detect potential public health threats such as rare, new diseases or early-level warnings for epidemics. But how useful are data from social media and the Internet, and what is the potential to enhance surveillance? The ...
Social media and internet-based data in global systems for public health surveillance: a systematic review. Social Media and Internet-Based Data in Global Systems for Public Health Surveillance: A Systematic Review . Milbank Q . 2014; 92 : 7–33. doi: ... E Velasco,T Agheneza,K Denecke,...