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Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1050) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1369) Public (e)Health, Digital Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics (750) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (466) Cancer and Prevention in the Media (33)

Published on in Vol 2, No 1 (2016): Jan-Jun

Leveraging Social Media to Promote Public Health Knowledge: Example of Cancer Awareness via Twitter

Leveraging Social Media to Promote Public Health Knowledge: Example of Cancer Awareness via Twitter

Leveraging Social Media to Promote Public Health Knowledge: Example of Cancer Awareness via Twitter

Authors of this article:

Songhua Xu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Christopher Markson1 Author Orcid Image ;   Kaitlin L Costello2 Author Orcid Image ;   Cathleen Y Xing3 Author Orcid Image ;   Kitaw Demissie4 Author Orcid Image ;   Adana AM Llanos4 Author Orcid Image
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