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Opioid Surveillance using Social Media: How URLs are shared among Reddit members
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Nearly 100 people per day die from opioid overdose in the United States. Further, prescription opioid abuse is assumed to be responsible for a 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. However, with increasing use of social media comes increasing… read more -
Leveraging Discussions on Reddit for Disease Surveillance
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In recent years, individuals have been using social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to discuss health-related topics. These social media platforms consequently became new avenues for research and applications for researchers, for… read more -
Towards Obesity Surveillance Using Multifaceted Online Social Relational Factors in Reddit
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Overweight and obesity are recognized as one of the greatest modern public health problems1, yet worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled over the past 30 years2. As part of a strategy to control the obesity pandemic, the WHO recommends an… read more -
Understanding Socio-Cultural Factors related to Obesity: Sentiment Analysis on related Tweets
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Obesity can lead to the death of at least 2.8 million people each year1, yet the rate of obesity around the world has continuously increased over the past 30 years1. Societal changes, including increased food consumption and decreased physical… read more -
Towards Tracking Opium Related Discussions in Social Media
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In recent years, the use of social media has increased at an unprecedented rate. For example, the popular social media platform Reddit (http://www.reddit.com) had 83 billion page views from over 88,000 active sub-communities (subreddits) in 2015.… read more