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The Global Health Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Tuberculosis, Malaria and Pneumonia Using Social Media Data

Lopreite, Milena and Puliga, Michelangelo and Riccaboni, Massimo The Global Health Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Tuberculosis, Malaria and Pneumonia Using Social Media Data. EIC working paper series #1/2018 IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca ISSN 2279-6894.

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Abstract

Global health networks (GHNs) of organizations fighting major health threats represent a useful strategy to respond to the challenge of mobilizing and coordinating different types of health organizations across borders toward a common goal. In this paper we reconstruct the GHNs of malaria, tuberculosis and pneumonia by creating a new unique database of health organizations from the official Twitter accounts of each organization. We use a majority voter Multi Naive Bayes classifier to discover, among the Twitter users, the ones that represent organizations or groups active in each disease area. We perform a social network analysis (SNA) of the global health networks (GHNs) to evaluate the structure of the network and the role and performance of the organizations in each network. We find evidence that the GHN of malaria, TBC and pneumonia are different in terms of performance and leadership, geographical coverage as well as Twitter popularity. Our analysis validate the use of social media to analyze GHNs, their effectiveness and to mobilize the global community toward global sustainable development.

Item Type: Working Paper (EIC working paper series)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Keywords: global health network; social network analysis; machine learning classifier; tuberculosis; malaria; pneumonia; policy evaluation - JEL codes: i15, i18, c8
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change
Depositing User: Ms T. Iannizzi
Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2018 08:24
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2018 08:24
URI: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/3856

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