Using Social Media for Actionable Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Management: A Systematic Literature Review.

OBJECTIVE:Research studies show that social media may be valuable tools in the disease surveillance toolkit used for improving public health professionals' ability to detect disease outbreaks faster than traditional methods and to enhance outbreak response. A social media work group, consisting...

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Main Authors: Lauren E Charles-Smith, Tera L Reynolds, Mark A Cameron, Mike Conway, Eric H Y Lau, Jennifer M Olsen, Julie A Pavlin, Mika Shigematsu, Laura C Streichert, Katie J Suda, Courtney D Corley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4593536?pdf=render