Using Social Media for Actionable Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Management: A Systematic Literature Review

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 10; p. e0139701
• Main Authors: Charles-Smith, Lauren E., Reynolds, Tera L., Cameron, Mark A., Conway, Mike, Lau, Eric H. Y., Olsen, Jennifer M., Pavlin, Julie A., Shigematsu, Mika, Streichert, Laura C., Suda, Katie J., Corley, Courtney D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 05.10.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Alcohol; At risk populations; BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; behavioral and social aspects of health; Blogging; Communicable Diseases - epidemiology; Communication; Digital media; Disease control; Disease Management; Disease Outbreaks; disease surveillance; Emergency communications systems; Epidemics; Health aspects; Health risks; Humans; Illnesses; Infectious diseases; Influenza; Informatics; Innovations; Internet; Intervention; Laboratories; Literature reviews; Management; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Media; Medical personnel; Minority & ethnic groups; North America; Outbreaks; Peer tutoring; Pharmacy; Populations; public and occupational health; Public Health; Reviews; Risk taking; Social Media; Social network analysis; Social networks; Society; Surveillance; Swine flu; swine influenza; Systematic review; twitter; United States; Vaccines; Web 2.0; United States; United States > US; Illinois; Massachusetts

Research studies show that social media may be valuable tools in the disease surveillance toolkit used for improving public health professionals' ability to detect disease outbreaks faster than traditional methods and to enhance outbreak response. A social media work group, consisting of survei...