Social media and public health

How do Social media change the questions of Public health?

People

• Meeyoung Cha
• Munmun De Choudhury
• Eric Horvitz
• John W
• James Niels Rosenquist
• Mark Dredze
• Jukka Pekka Onnela
• James Fowler
• Alexandro Vespignani

Topics

General

• Commentary on trending now: future directions in digital media for the public health sector
• You are what you Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for public health.
  • A model for mining public health topics from Twitter
  • How Social Media Will Change Public Health
  • Carmen: A twitter geolocation system with applications to public health

Information seeking & sharing

• Seeking and Sharing Health Information Online: Comparing Search Engines and Social Media
• Malpractice and Malcontent: Analyzing Medical Complaints in Twitter

Disease surveillance

• Flu near you
• Investigating Twitter as a Source for Studying Behavioral Responses to Epidemics
  • Separating Fact from Fear: Tracking Flu Infections on Twitter
  • National and Local Influenza Surveillance through Twitter: An Analysis of the 2012-2013 Influenza Epidemic

Mental health and substance usage monitoring

Depression

• Predicting postpartum changes in emotion and behavior via social media
  • Characterizing and predicting postpartum depression from shared facebook data
• Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations
  • Predicting Depression via Social Media
• Depressive Moods of Users Portrayed in Twitter
  • Perception Differences between the Depressed and Non-Depressed Users in Twitter

Substance usage

• Image and video disclosure of substance use on social media websites
• Everyday, Everywhere: Alcohol Marketing and Social Media—Current Trends
• Permissive Norms and Young Adults’ Alcohol and Marijuana Use: The Role of Online Communities
• Loneliness, anxiousness, and substance use as predictors of Facebook use
• Do College Students use Facebook to Communicate about Alcohol? An Analysis of Student Profile Pages
• Photos on Facebook : an exploratory study of their role in the social lives and drinking experiences of New Zealand university students : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
• Discussing illicit drugs in public internet forums: visibility, stigma, and pseudonymity
• Drug Extraction from the Web: Summarizing Drug Experiences with Multi-Dimensional Topic Models
• Signs & Symptoms of Dextromethorphan Exposure from YouTube
• Monitoring regional alcohol consumption through social media

Search query-based methods

• US consumer interest in non-cigarette tobacco products spikes around the 2009 federal tobacco tax increase
  • Digital Detection for Tobacco Control: Online Reactions to the United States’ 2009 Cigarette Excise Tax Increase
  • A novel evaluation of World No Tobacco day in Latin America.
  • Using Search Query Surveillance to Monitor Tax Avoidance and Smoking Cessation following the United States’ 2009 “SCHIP” Cigarette Tax Increase
  • Seasonality in Seeking Mental Health Information on Google
  • Tracking the Rise in Popularity of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (Electronic Cigarettes) Using Search Query Surveillance

Marketing and health promotion

• Consumer behaviour for wine 2.0: A review since 2003 and future directions
• Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing: implications for public health
• Competing Voices: Marketing and Counter-Marketing Alcohol on Twitter
• Online social networking sites—a novel setting for health promotion?
• Exploring industry driven marketing influences on young people who drink alcohol - maybe not really about social media.
• Alcohol brands on Facebook: the challenges of regulating brands on social media
• Exposure of Children and Adolescents to Alcohol Marketing on Social Media Websites

• Measuring youth exposure to alcohol marketing on social networking sites: Challenges and prospects

• Vaporous Marketing: Uncovering Pervasive Electronic Cigarette Advertisements on Twitter

• The relationship between exposure to brand-specific alcohol advertising and brand-specific consumption among underage drinkers – United States, 2011–2012

Public health campaigns

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