Publication detail

How to Exploit Twitter for Public Health Monitoring

DENECKE, K. KRIECK, M. OTRUSINA, L. SMRŽ, P. DOLOG, P. NEJDL, W. VELASCO, E.

Original Title

How to Exploit Twitter for Public Health Monitoring

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Detecting hints to public health threats as early as possible is crucial to prevent harm from the population. However, many disease surveillance strategies rely upon data whose collection requires explicit reporting (data transmitted from hospitals, laboratories or physicians). Collecting reports takes time so that the reaction time grows. Moreover, context information on individual cases is often lost in the collection process. This paper describes a system that tries to address these limitations by processing social media for identifying information on public health threats. The primary objective is to study the usefulness of the approach for supporting the monitoring of a population's health status.

Keywords

public health monitoring; social media analysis; big data for health

Authors

DENECKE, K.; KRIECK, M.; OTRUSINA, L.; SMRŽ, P.; DOLOG, P.; NEJDL, W.; VELASCO, E.

RIV year

2013

Released

12. 8. 2013

ISBN

0026-1270

Periodical

Methods of Information in Medicine

Year of study

52

Number

4

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

326

Pages to

339

Pages count

14

BibTex

@article{BUT119886,
  author="Kerstin {Denecke} and Manuela {Krieck} and Lubomír {Otrusina} and Pavel {Smrž} and Peter {Dolog} and Wolfgang {Nejdl} and Edward {Velasco}",
  title="How to Exploit Twitter for Public Health Monitoring",
  journal="Methods of Information in Medicine",
  year="2013",
  volume="52",
  number="4",
  pages="326--339",
  issn="0026-1270"
}