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Opioid Surveillance using Social Media: How URLs are shared among Reddit members
Content Type: Abstract
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… Nearly 100 people per day die from opioid overdose in the United States. Further, … Nearly 100 people per day die from opioid overdose in the United States. Further, … -
Virtual Speed Networking with the Analytic Solutions Committee (ASC)
Content Type: Webinar
Presented January 11, 2018. The purpose of the event was to stimulate and facilitate constructive communication and collaboration among analytic method developers and practitioners charged with routine public health surveillance, ranging from… read more… New York University E-mail: daniel.neill@nyu.edu Personal Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neill EPD Lab Website: http://epdlab.heinz.cmu.edu Syndromic surveillance … -
Understanding Socio-Cultural Factors related to Obesity: Sentiment Analysis on related Tweets
Content Type: Abstract
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… obesity pandemic2. Examining socio-cultural factors (i.e., attitudes or perceptions of cultural groups)3 … : We aim to better understand socio-cultural factors (i.e., attitudes or perceptions of cultural groups) … obesity pandemic2. Examining socio-cultural factors (i.e., attitudes or perceptions of cultural groups)3 … -
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… online social networks, interactions, and environments (i.e., online social relational factors) deserve more … online social networks, interactions, and environments (i.e., online social relational factors) deserve more …