Social media indicators of the food environment and state health outcomes
| Autor: | Feifei Li, Suraj Kath, P. Kanokvimankul, Quynh C. Nguyen, Matt McCullough, T.X. Nguyen, Dapeng Li, Debjyoti Paul, Hsien Wen Meng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Adolescent Health Behavior Binge drinking Environment Health outcomes Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Environmental health medicine Prevalence Humans Social media 030212 general & internal medicine Social determinants of health Aged 030505 public health Heavy drinking Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Obesity United States Cross-Sectional Studies Food Chronic Disease Household income Female 0305 other medical science Social Media Food environment |
| Zdroj: | Public health. 148 |
| ISSN: | 1476-5616 |
| Popis: | Objectives Contextual factors can influence health through exposures to health-promoting and risk-inducing factors. The aim of this study was to (1) build, from geotagged Twitter and Yelp data, a national food environment database and (2) to test associations between state food environment indicators and health outcomes. Study design This is a cross-sectional study based upon secondary analyses of publicly available data. Methods Using Twitter's Streaming Application Programming Interface (API), we collected and processed 4,041,521 food-related, geotagged tweets between April 2015 and March 2016. Using Yelp's Search API, we collected data on 505,554 unique food-related businesses. In linear regression models, we examined associations between food environment characteristics and state-level health outcomes, controlling for state-level differences in age, percent non-Hispanic white, and median household income. Results A one standard deviation increase in caloric density of food tweets was related to higher all-cause mortality (+46.50 per 100,000), diabetes (+0.75%), obesity (+1.78%), high cholesterol (+1.40%), and fair/poor self-rated health (2.01%). More burger Yelp listings were related to higher prevalence of diabetes (+0.55%), obesity (1.35%), and fair/poor self-rated health (1.12%). More alcohol tweets and Yelp bars and pub listings were related to higher state-level binge drinking and heavy drinking, but lower mortality and lower percent reporting fair/poor self-rated health. Supplemental analyses with county-level social media indicators and county health outcomes resulted in finding similar but slightly attenuated associations compared to those found at the state level. Conclusions Social media can be utilized to create indicators of the food environment that are associated with area-level mortality, health behaviors, and chronic conditions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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