Social media data, particularly Twitter data, can be used for disease surveillance and public perception analysis, improving disease prediction and monitoring.

A Review of Social Media Data Utilization for the Prediction of Disease Outbreaks and Understanding Public Perception

Social networks significantly impact individuals' health behaviors, and using an algorithm like this one can help understand their health habits on platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Understanding Health Behaviors using Social Network Analysis

Twitter is increasingly used for public health purposes, particularly in surveillance, event detection, pharmacovigilance, forecasting, disease tracking, and geographic identification.

A scoping review of the use of Twitter for public health research

Predicting mental health status using social media data faces challenges, such as construct validity and method reflection.

Methods in predictive techniques for mental health status on social media: a critical review

Social media data can be valuable for mental health research, but challenges persist in assembling large, high-quality datasets, managing consent, and selecting appropriate analytics techniques.

Researching Mental Health Disorders in the Era of Social Media: Systematic Review

Social media analytics can enhance smart health by providing valuable information about patients, enhancing virtual medical offices, and addressing privacy and credibility concerns.

Social Media Analytics for Smart Health

Social media can effectively support and improve public health by supporting disease surveillance and outbreak management, but more research is needed to integrate it into practice.

Using Social Media for Actionable Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Management: A Systematic Literature Review

Social media use, particularly aggregated social media, effectively promotes preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, with eHealth literacy and disease knowledge playing a moderating role.

Social Media Use, eHealth Literacy, Disease Knowledge, and Preventive Behaviors in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study on Chinese Netizens

Using social media may have a positive association with traditional bibliometrics in health research, but further studies with better design are needed to confirm the causal link.

The Use of Social Media to Increase the Impact of Health Research: Systematic Review

Crowdbreaks is an open platform that tracks health trends using crowdsourced labeling of public social media content, accelerating research in public health.

Crowdbreaks: Tracking Health Trends Using Public Social Media Data and Crowdsourcing

NLP-based research on social media for public health applications has increasingly shifted focus from communicable diseases to mental health and substance use, with lexicon-based methods still popular.

Recent Advances in Using Natural Language Processing to Address Public Health Research Questions Using Social Media and ConsumerGenerated Data

Social media use is more prevalent among younger age groups, and health communication programs should consider age to effectively target messages.

Social Media Use in the United States: Implications for Health Communication

Social media can be a valuable tool for studying health behavior, addressing methodological challenges and improving our understanding of social dynamics in health.

Social Media and the Science of Health Behavior

Social media has advanced health research and practice, but research gaps remain in strategic use, impact evaluation, and privacy concerns.

Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review

Twitter's effectiveness in promoting healthy behaviors remains weakly supported, with limited evaluations and potential biases in evaluation methods.

Are social networks effective in promoting healthy behaviors? A systematic review of evaluations of public health campaigns broadcast on Twitter

Social media interventions designed to correct health-related misinformation have a positive and significant impact, particularly when targeting health-related topics and debunking misinformation distributed by news organizations and experts.

Evaluating the Impact of Attempts to Correct Health Misinformation on Social Media: A Meta-Analysis

Social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram can enhance the impact of public health research by promoting communication, influencing media coverage, and combating misinformation.

Social Media as a Tool to Increase the Impact of Public Health Research

Social media has both positive and negative impacts on public health, influencing policy, education, and behavior modification, but ethical and professional guidelines must be followed.

Social Media Role and Its Impact on Public Health: A Narrative Review

What is the impact of social media analytics on understanding public health trends and behaviors?

These studies suggest that social media analytics can significantly enhance understanding of public health trends and behaviors by improving disease surveillance, monitoring, prediction, and promoting preventive behaviors, despite challenges in data quality, consent, and method validity.