Background: Sexuality discourse in Ghana has become more divided, especially around gender and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, leading to new antigay laws criminalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer a…
Background: Influenza seasons may be associated with increased anxiety-related expressions on social media. Social media can reflect population-level emotional expression patterns in real time. Objective: The aim of the study is to characte…
Background: Repetition is a central feature of digital news consumption, where engagement-driven algorithms often expose users to similar health-related content. Prior research suggests that repeated exposure can influence perceived truth a…
Background: Oral nicotine pouches, such as Zyn, have rapidly grown in popularity in the United States, with sales increasing from 83.2 million cans in 2020 to 385 million cans in 2023. This growth has occurred alongside concerns about youth…
Background: The variation of language concerning tobacco products and tobacco use is known to impact the understanding of related risks and influence behaviors including use uptake and product cessation. Transnational tobacco companies can
This study, using natural language processing and manual thematic analysis of Reddit posts, revealed a rapid rise in discussions about tianeptine, with posts frequently reporting dependence, withdrawal, and coingestion with other unregulate…
Background: With the rapid development of pharmaceutical e-commerce, online drug sales have led to additional safety risks, while providing convenient services to the public. These risks pose challenges to public health security and regulat…
Background: Tetanus is a severe but vaccine-preventable neurological disease that remains a public health concern, especially in resource-limited settings. As social media becomes an important source of health information, concerns persist
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of effective health communication and reliable information for crisis management, particularly following the introduction of vaccinations. Varied attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccina…
Background: Depression has become a major global public health challenge, and early intervention is critical for improving patient outcomes. Current depression detection techniques based on social media data (traditional risk detection) rel…
Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine hesitancy remains a significant public health challenge in Japan, where proactive vaccination recommendations were suspended between 2013 and 2021. The resulting information gap between medical…
Background: Public discourse is significantly impacted by the rapid spread of misinformation on social media platforms. Human moderators, while capable of performing well, face many challenges due to scalability. While large language models…