Social Monitoring for Public Health (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Release date:	August 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Michael J. Paul • Mark Dredze
Dimensions:	235 x 191mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	163
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-101183-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > General
LSN:	3-03-101183-X
Barcode:	9783031011832

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