To facilitate patient involvement in online health community and obtain informative support and emotional support they need, a topic identification approach was proposed in this paper for identifying automatically topics of the health-related messages in online health community, thus assisting patients in reaching the most relevant messages for their queries efficiently. Feature-based classific...

This special issue of Food Additives and Contaminants dedicated to ‘Health Canada: Current Topics in Food Chemical Safety Research’ will be the first published document where the focus is on Health Canada’s food research activities. This issue features a selection of papers arising from work in the Food Research Division of the Bureau of Chemical Safety within Health Canada’s Food Directorate a...

The social media application TikTok allows users to view and upload short-form videos. Recent evidence suggests it has significant potential for both industry health promoters influence public behaviours. This protocol describes a standardised, replicable process investigations that can be tailored various areas of research interest, allowing comparison content features across topics. first 50 ...

INTRODUCTION Social media are widely used by the general public and by public health and health care professionals. Emerging evidence suggests engagement with public health information on social media may influence health behavior. However, the volume of data accumulating daily on Twitter and other social media is a challenge for researchers with limited resources to further examine how social ...

OBJECTIVES To assess how care is delivered for mental disorders using videotapes of office visits involving elderly patients. DESIGN Mixed-method observational analysis of the nature of the topics discussed, content of discussion, and the time spent on mental health. SETTINGS Three types of settings: an academic medical center, a managed care group, and fee-for-service solo practitioners. ...