A New Source of Data for Public Health Surveillance: Facebook Likes

H. Gittelman, Steven; Lange, Victor; A. Gotway Crawford, Carol; A. Okoro, Catherine; Lieb, Eugene; Dhingra, Satvinder; Trimarchi, Elaine

doi:10.2196/jmir.3970

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A New Source of Data for Public Health Surveillance: Facebook Likes

Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research • Apr 20, 2015

Authors:

Steven H. Gittelman

Victor Lange

Carol A. Gotway Crawford

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Investigation into personal health has become focused on conditions at an increasingly local level, while response rates have declined and complicated the process of collecting data at an individual level. Simultaneously, social media data have exploded in availability and have been show...

Subject

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Socioeconomic status

Health Information National Trends Survey

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