Title :
Global disease surveillance using social media: HIV/AIDS content intervention in web forums
Author :
Ku, Yungchang ; Chiu, Chaochang ; Zhang, Yulei ; Fan, Li ; Chen, Hsinchun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Acad. Affairs, Central Police Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan
Abstract :
Collecting potential data sources for use in proactively analyzing and evaluating strategies for syndromic surveillance and bio-defense have become critical issues in and challenges to infectious disease informatics [1]. Web forums link highly relevant information about patients´ needs, disease pain, health conditions, and concerns for medical practice [2]. Health departments or medical service groups can use the information in the forums to identify disease sources and scope and to detect outbreaks while the possibility for intervention remains.
Keywords :
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Biomedical informatics; Chaos; Diseases; Human immunodeficiency virus; Medical services; Public healthcare; Surveillance; Testing; Text categorization; HIV/AIDS intervention; forum messages intervention; text mining;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6444-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISI.2010.5484749