A new source of data for public health surveillance: Facebook likes.

Steven Gittelman Victor Lange Carol A Gotway Crawford Catherine A Okoro Eugene Lieb Satvinder S Dhingra Elaine Trimarchi

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2015)

Facebook likes provide estimates for examined health outcomes and health behaviors that are comparable to those obtained from the BRFSS. Online sources may provide more reliable, timely, and cost-effective county-level data than that obtainable from traditional public health surveillance systems as well as serve as an adjunct to those systems.

Keyphrases

public health
social media
electronic health record
global health
big data
healthcare
mental health
risk assessment