Social Network Simulation and Mining Social Media to Advance Epidemiology
Description:
Traditional Public Health decision-support can benefit from the Web and social media revolution. This dissertation presents approaches to mining social media benefiting public health epidemiology. Through discovery and analysis of trends in Influenza related blogs, a correlation to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) influenza-like-illness patient reporting at sentinel health-care providers is verified. A second approach considers personal beliefs of vaccination in social media. A …
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Date:
August 2009
Creator:
Corley, Courtney David
Partner:
UNT Libraries