Arshad Zara, Sharma Pranav, Sharma Shweta, Cheema Mustafa Sajjad, Agarwal Charu, Tango Tamara, Matin Farhan Bin, Atanasov Atanas G, Siddiquea Bodrun Naher, Matin Maima, Adamska Olga, Stolarczyk Artur, Kashyap Rahul, Nawaz Faisal A
Global Remote Research Scholars Program, St. Paul, MN, United States.
Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
Front Public Health. 2024 Nov 29;12:1413556. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1413556. eCollection 2024.
X (Formerly known as Twitter) healthcare hashtags are a popular healthcare informatics and educational tool among medical professionals. #Globalhealth is one such widely used hashtag with extensive engagement. This study analyses #GlobalHealth to understand its pattern, global digital distribution, and other parameters during the COVID-19 pandemic on X.
Data was collected by utilizing posts using #GlobalHealth on X from 1st December 2019 to 1st November 2022. The analysis was performed using Symplur Signals to assess several parameters, such as the cumulative number of posts, impressions, category of users, co-occurring hashtags, and geolocation. The Symplur Rank system was used to assess the impact of influencers using the hashtag.
A total of 843,762 posts were shared by 150,408 X users, with 4,639,144,304 impressions. Most posts (73.8%) were made by unclassified accounts, followed by doctors (4.2%), followed by other health workers. The #COVID19 was the most common co-occurring hashtag (43%). The top locations and the most influential X users came from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Among the top 25 most influential handles, a maximum ( = 09) were based in the United States-most profiles ( = 10) were categorized as international organizations followed by journals ( = 03).
The study gives a glimpse into the discrepancies in global distribution and stakeholders of #GlobalHealth. Most posts originated from the global north, which hints at how the trend to #GlobalHealth is not perhaps as global as it is thought to be, and it also reflects upon the real-world scenarios in the context of Global Health Equity. Thus, deeper and wider studies on this digital discrepancy may add more to the existing discourse on the topic.
X（前身为推特）上的医疗保健主题标签是医疗专业人员中流行的医疗信息学和教育工具。#全球健康就是这样一个被广泛使用且参与度很高的主题标签。本研究分析#全球健康，以了解其在X上的新冠疫情期间的模式、全球数字分布及其他参数。
利用2019年12月1日至2022年11月1日期间X上使用#全球健康的帖子收集数据。使用Symplur Signals进行分析，以评估多个参数，如帖子的累计数量、曝光量、用户类别、同时出现的主题标签和地理位置。Symplur排名系统用于评估使用该主题标签的有影响力者的影响力。
150408名X用户共分享了843762条帖子，曝光量达4639144304次。大多数帖子（73.8%）由未分类账户发布，其次是医生（4.2%），然后是其他医护人员。#新冠疫情是最常见的同时出现的主题标签（43%）。排名靠前的地点和最有影响力的X用户来自美国、英国和加拿大。在最有影响力的25个账号中，最多（=09）位于美国，大多数账号（=10）被归类为国际组织，其次是期刊（=03）。
该研究让我们得以一窥#全球健康在全球分布和利益相关者方面的差异。大多数帖子来自全球北方，这暗示了#全球健康的趋势可能并不像人们认为的那样具有全球性，也反映了全球健康公平背景下的现实情况。因此，对这种数字差异进行更深入、更广泛的研究可能会为该主题的现有讨论增添更多内容。
