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  • Digital Epidemiology
  • Social Media Analytics

Background:

  • Epidemics pose significant challenges, increasing vulnerability to misinformation.
  • Social media offers a powerful platform for public health communication and data collection.
  • Leveraging social media is crucial for effective epidemic mitigation strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review social media integration in epidemic monitoring.
  • To analyze social media's role in misinformation detection during outbreaks.
  • To explore the relationship between social media use and mental health during epidemics.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic literature review using PRISMA guidelines.
  • Searched multiple databases (PubMed, IEEE Xplore, etc.) and gray literature.
  • Synthesized 242 selected papers from 2010-2022, analyzing themes, methods, and platforms.

Main Results:

  • Identified key themes: epidemic forecasting, public opinion, fake news, and mental health.
  • Social media effectively gauges public response, monitors discourse, and identifies misinformation.
  • Highlighted a gap in integrating retrospective epidemic analysis into prospective studies.

Conclusions:

  • Social media is valuable for epidemic forecasting, public opinion analysis, and misinformation detection.
  • Addressing mental health implications alongside social media use is critical.
  • Proactive integration of social media insights is vital for epidemic containment.