Depression is a common mental health disorder that affects an individual's moods, thought
processes and behaviours negatively, and disrupts one's ability to function optimally. In most …

Background Understanding how people participate in and contribute to online health
communities (OHCs) is useful knowledge in multiple domains. It is helpful for community …

Background: Data representing people's behaviour, attitudes, feelings and relationships are
increasingly being harvested from social media platforms and re-used for research …

Background In January 2014, the Chicago City Council scheduled a vote on local regulation
of electronic cigarettes as tobacco products. One week prior to the vote, the Chicago …

Objectives. In an antifluoridation case study, we explored digital pandemics and the social
spread of scientifically inaccurate health information across the Web, and we considered the …

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps might have the potential to promote self-
management of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in everyday life. However, the uptake of …

Purpose Using a sense making approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role
that virtual health communities play as a source of informational and social support for …

Abstract Background As Twitter has become an active data source for health surveillance
research, it is important that efficient and effective methods are developed to identify tweets …

摘要本文通过在线健康社区中对用户画像构建及主题特征挖掘, 揭示不同用户角色群体下用户
行为差异及特征, 以了解社区内用户信息需求, 为推动在线健康社区行业发展与完善提供建议 …

Background Electronic health (eHealth) literacy is an important skill that allows patients to
navigate intelligibly through the vast, often misleading Web-based world. Although eHealth …