Assessing the online social environment for surveillance of obesity prevalence.

Understanding the social environmental around obesity has been limited by available data. One promising approach used to bridge similar gaps elsewhere is to use passively generated digital data.This article explores the relationship between online social environment via web-based social networks and...

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Main Authors: Rumi Chunara, Lindsay Bouton, John W Ayers, John S Brownstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3634787?pdf=render