2017
DOI: 10.1097/phh.0000000000000516
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Using Twitter to Identify and Respond to Food Poisoning: The Food Safety STL Project

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“…Twitter, as a social media platform, has become an increasingly useful data source for a wide range of health surveillance studies. They include investigations of influenza pandemics [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], Haitian cholera outbreak [11], Ebola outbreak [12], non-medical use of a psychostimulant drug (Ad-derall) [13], drug abuse [14], smoking [15], suicide risks [16], migraine headaches [17], pharmaceutical product safety [18][19][20][21][22], disease outbreaks during festivals [23], detection of Schizophrenia [24], food-borne illness [25,26], and even dental pains [27].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Twitter, as a social media platform, has become an increasingly useful data source for a wide range of health surveillance studies. They include investigations of influenza pandemics [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], Haitian cholera outbreak [11], Ebola outbreak [12], non-medical use of a psychostimulant drug (Ad-derall) [13], drug abuse [14], smoking [15], suicide risks [16], migraine headaches [17], pharmaceutical product safety [18][19][20][21][22], disease outbreaks during festivals [23], detection of Schizophrenia [24], food-borne illness [25,26], and even dental pains [27].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, prior research has demonstrated that government use of social media can increase trust and improve perceived transparency [ 11 ], resulting in more interaction between the public and government. Notably, Chicago implemented a similar intervention and had much greater response from constituents [ 9 , 14 ]. In addition to being a larger city, Chicago has a very active civic social media presence through the Smart Chicago Collaborative and Open City, which use open data from the City of Chicago and other sources in a set of proprietary civic web apps.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Before implementation of the Dashboard, there were seven methods available for consumers to report suspected foodborne illness in St. Louis: phone call, email, fax, completed web form, tweet sent to the City of St. Louis Citizens’ Service Bureau (@stlcsb; CSB), direct contact from the STL-DOH, or other direct contact [ 14 ]. When a complaint is received through any of these mechanisms, the CSB enters the complaint into a CityWorks database.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…There are several publications looking at the use of internet search and social media postings to provide information on increased disease activity. [65][66][67] Other forms of syndromic surveillance have been used such as the use of telephone helpline data to map diarrhea and vomiting, 68 difficulties with this approach fall mainly on disentangling the causes of the illness from syndromes (diarrhea and vomiting). Norovirus is not the only cause of D&V and has a seasonality similar to that of rotavirus, similarly sapovirus has similar illness characteristics to norovirus.…”
Section: Surveillancementioning
confidence: 99%