Social Media Intelligence for Public Health Surveillance
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Communication and Informatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 52261
Special Issue Editors
Interests: business intelligence; health domain; text mining; social media analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, the impact of social networks on public health aspects is higher and higher, because of their enormous popularity and engagement power. Detecting and understanding how fake news, false rumours, and any other kind of viral information can affect public health are urgent issues that will need specific methods of social media analysis. Measuring the impact of public campaigns from authority organizations against these health threats will be especially relevant in the near future. Also, detecting social network communities that are polarized to certain public health topics will allow these organizations to better prepare their citizen awareness campaigns.
On the other hand, the public availability of millions of user-generated messages opens up new challenges and opportunities for epidemiological and social studies related to public health surveillance. Studies about drug use in the population, like self-medication practices, pharmacovigilance, health psychology aspects such as depression, disease propagation patterns, environmental issues like pollution, and much more can be now tackled through social media analysis.
This Special Issue is aimed at original and high-quality papers about social media analysis oriented to public health surveillance in any of its facets. Papers proposing novel techniques and methods for extracting useful insight from social media data are especially welcome to this Special Issue. Moreover, papers should contribute new findings about public health that are mainly derived from social media analysis.
Potential papers of interest will include, but not be limited to, the following topics:
- Social media analysis
- Public health surveillance
- Bio-surveillance
- Pharmacovigilance
- Decision making
- Data visualization
- Predictive analysis
- Network analysis
- Knowledge graphs
Prof. Rafael Berlanga
Dr. Antonio Jimeno-Yepes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Social media analysis
- Predictive analysis
- Public health surveillance
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