Using Twitter to Measure Public Discussion of Diseases: A Case Study.

Christopher Weeg H Andrew Schwartz Shawndra Hill Raina M Merchant Catalina Arango Lyle H Ungar

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2015)

Twitter is a potentially useful tool to measure public interest in and concerns about different diseases, but when comparing diseases, improvements can be made by adjusting for population demographics and word ambiguity.

Keyphrases

social media
healthcare
mental health
adverse drug
electronic health record