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Social Monitoring for Public Health [electronic resource] / by Michael J. Paul, Mark Dredze.

By: Paul, Michael J [author.].
Contributor(s): Dredze, Mark [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017Edition: 1st ed. 2017.Description: XIX, 163 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783031023118.Subject(s): Computer networks  | Computer Communication NetworksAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 004.6 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A New Source of Big Data -- Public Health: A Primer -- Social Data -- Methods of Monitoring -- Public Health Applications -- Limitations and Concerns -- Looking Ahead -- Bibliography -- Authors' Biographies.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social monitoring, the analysis of social media and other user-generated web data, has brought advances in the way we leverage population data to understand health. Social media offers advantages over traditional data sources, including real-time data availability, ease of access, and reduced cost. Social media allows us to ask, and answer, questions we never thought possible. This book presents an overview of the progress on uses of social monitoring to study public health over the past decade. We explain available data sources, common methods, and survey research on social monitoring in a wide range of public health areas. Our examples come from topics such as disease surveillance, behavioral medicine, and mental health, among others. We explore the limitations and concerns of these methods. Our survey of this exciting new field of data-driven research lays out future research directions.
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A New Source of Big Data -- Public Health: A Primer -- Social Data -- Methods of Monitoring -- Public Health Applications -- Limitations and Concerns -- Looking Ahead -- Bibliography -- Authors' Biographies.

Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social monitoring, the analysis of social media and other user-generated web data, has brought advances in the way we leverage population data to understand health. Social media offers advantages over traditional data sources, including real-time data availability, ease of access, and reduced cost. Social media allows us to ask, and answer, questions we never thought possible. This book presents an overview of the progress on uses of social monitoring to study public health over the past decade. We explain available data sources, common methods, and survey research on social monitoring in a wide range of public health areas. Our examples come from topics such as disease surveillance, behavioral medicine, and mental health, among others. We explore the limitations and concerns of these methods. Our survey of this exciting new field of data-driven research lays out future research directions.

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