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Towards Exploiting Social Networks for Detecting Epidemic Outbreaks

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 2017
Social networks are becoming a valuable source of information for applications in many domains. In particular, many studies have highlighted the potential of social networks for early detection of epidemic outbreaks, due to their capability to transmit information faster than traditional channels, thus leading to quicker reactions of public health ...
DI MARTINO, SERGIO, ROMANO, SARA, Bertolotto, Michela, Kanhabua, Nattiya, MAZZEO, ANTONINO, Nejdl, Wolfgang   +5 more
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Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases

Journal of Health Psychology, 2016
This study examined the collective image of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak, to understand how people incorporate this epidemic in their everyday thinking. A free association exercise elicited by Ebola was answered by 294 people from Spain and the content was analysed using Alceste software.
Nahia, Idoiaga Mondragon, Lorena, Gil de Montes, Jose, Valencia   +2 more
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Modeling the Social Response to a Disease Outbreak

2013
With the globalization of travel and economic trade, disease can spread rapidly across the globe, sometimes causing panic, population flight and other forms of social disorder. These responses often herald a significant change in the epidemiological pattern or etiology of an infectious disease event.
Jane Evans, Shannon Fast, Natasha Markuzon   +2 more
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Impact of Social Media on Pandemic COVID-19 Outbreak

2021
There are lots of social media tools that are accessible for medical or healthcare professionals, which include different social networking blogs, microblogs, media-sharing sites, wikis, virtual reality. All these different media tools can be utilized to develop or improve specialized networking and organizational promotion, education, patient ...
Ranjit Barua, Sudipto Datta, Nibedita Bardhan   +2 more
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Vulnerability of a killer whale social network to disease outbreaks

Physical Review E, 2007
Emerging infectious diseases are among the main threats to conservation of biological diversity. A crucial task facing epidemiologists is to predict the vulnerability of populations of endangered animals to disease outbreaks. In this context, the network structure of social interactions within animal populations may affect disease spreading.
Paulo R, Guimarães, Márcio Argollo, de Menezes, Robin W, Baird, David, Lusseau, Paulo, Guimarães, Sérgio F, dos Reis   +5 more
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The use of social media in outbreak communication

2020
Günümüzde salgınlar hem ortaya çıkan yeni etkenler hem de tüm dünyaya yayılabilmeleri nedeniyle halk sağlığı acilleri içerisinde önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Salgınlar insanların bilgi ihtiyacının arttığı dönemlerdir. Burada risk iletişimi devreye girmektedir.
ŞENOL, Yiğit, AVCI, Kadriye
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Managing social media rumors and misinformation during outbreaks

American Journal of Infection Control, 2018
Santosh Vijaykumar, Glen Nowak, Itai Himelboim, Yan Jin   +3 more
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Recommendation agents and information sharing through social media for coronavirus outbreak

Telematics and Informatics, 2021
Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Shahla Asadi, Rabab Ali Abumalloh   +2 more
exaly  

Epidemic Outbreaks in Mamlūk Egypt and Social Responses

Minia Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research MJTHR, 2023
Nermeen Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Samah Mahmoud, Shaaban Abdelrazik   +2 more
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Reaching out to migrant households during COVID-19 outbreak: the increasing need of social workers in Cambodia

Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 2021
Yao Fu, Lucy P Jordan
exaly