Assessing vaccination sentiments with online social media: implications for infectious disease dynamics and control.

There is great interest in the dynamics of health behaviors in social networks and how they affect collective public health outcomes, but measuring population health behaviors over time and space requires substantial resources. Here, we use publicly available data from 101,853 users of online social...

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Main Authors: Marcel Salathé, Shashank Khandelwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3192813?pdf=render