The health Tweet!! shows what people tweeted between April 2013 and April 2014.
The focus is on the key infectious diseases that affect Sub saharan Africa.
The app also focuses on the following diseases.
Malaria
HIV
Pneumonia
Example of the output
If you visit the App some of the things you will see
This word cloud shows the words used on malaria related tweets.
-The famous words were Africa and Nets
Why Visit the Health Tweet!!
The three diseases of interest cause higher mortality in under fives.
-Social media especially Twitter has been used as a platform for expression by differnt people in the world.
This app helps researchers know the perception of people on the infectious diseases and their own perceprtion.
It compares the key words of researc interest and what people say
-i.e for malaria we focused on funding, nets, vaccines, mosquito and end
But the most used word on Malaria tweets was Africa and nets ---->
