Examining emergent communities and social bots within the polarized online vaccination debate in Twitter

X Yuan, RJ Schuchard, AT Crooks - Social media+ society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Many states in the United States allow a “belief exemption” for measles, mumps, and rubella
(MMR) vaccines. People's opinion on whether or not to take the vaccine can have direct …

Strategies for effective health communication during the coronavirus pandemic and future emerging infectious disease events

EK Vraga, KH Jacobsen - World Medical & Health Policy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An emerging infectious disease event like the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic demands
careful communication of public health messages to diverse audiences. However …

Cancer and social media: a comparison of traffic about breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other reproductive cancers on Twitter and Instagram

EK Vraga, A Stefanidis, G Lamprianidis… - Journal of health …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Social media are often heralded as offering cancer campaigns new opportunities to reach
the public. However, these campaigns may not be equally successful, depending on the …

Applying the DEMATEL method to evaluate social media criteria in promoting sustainable health behavior—a case study of vegetarian diet promotion by a non-profit …

CH Liao - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the determinants of the success of
social media health promotion by non-profit organizations. Based on a literature review …

A case study of using natural language processing to extract consumer insights from tweets in American cities for public health crises

Y Wang, E Willis, VK Yeruva, D Ho, Y Lee - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic was a “wake up” call for public health agencies.
Often, these agencies are ill-prepared to communicate with target audiences clearly and …

Look who's talking now: Cancer in primary care on Twitter. An observational study

KM Milley, SA Chima, KL Cummings, JD Emery - BJGP open, 2021 - bjgpopen.org
Background Twitter is a microblogging platform that helps share information. It is a dynamic
tool that has been embraced by many user types including consumers and healthcare …

Overview and characterization of penile cancer content across social media platforms

RA Ortiz-Guerra, S Jaime-Casas… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Social media platforms (SMP) are an emerging resource that allows physicians,
patients, and families to converse on cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. We aimed …

Publicity for a cancer research project. How much does it cost?

S Espinosa Mirabet, M Puntí Brun - Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents an applied case of publicity to demonstrate how a university cancer
research group (a biomedical engineering team, Targetslab-GREP) without communication …

[HTML][HTML] Using Natural Language Processing to Extract Intelligence for Public Health Crises

Y Wang, E Willis, V Yeruva, D Ho, Y Lee - 2022 - europepmc.org
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is an awakening call for public health agencies.
Digital technologies create a decentralized information environment in which public health …

Social advertisement awareness and social media engagement attitude of consumers: an empirical examination

R Shanthi, M Rekha, JB Priya - International Journal of …, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
The society is witnessing an imperative and necessary requirement of social media platform
to share their perception and attitude towards their daily lives. In this digital era the social …