Open AccessSocial Media Adoption in Local Health Departments Nationwide
Author(s) -
Jenine K. Harris,
Nancy Mueller,
Doneisha Snider
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2012.301166
Subject(s) - social media , health department , public health , information dissemination , public relations , location , business , dissemination , geography , political science , medicine , world wide web , computer science , law , nursing , geodesy
We examined whether characteristics of local health departments (LHD) and their geographic region were associated with using Facebook and Twitter. We also examined the number of tweets per month for Twitter accounts as an indicator of social media use by LHDs.