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Twitter provides researchers with a real-time source of public health information on a global scale, and can be very important in public health research. Classifying Twitter data into topics or categories is helpful to better understand how users react and communicate. A literature review is presented on the use of mining Twitter data or similar short-text datasets for public health applications. Each method is analyzed for ways to use Twitter data in public health surveillance. Papers in which Twitter content was classified according to users or tweets for better surveillance of public health were selected for review. Only papers published between 2010\u20132017 were considered. The reviewed publications are distinguished by the methods that were used to categorize the Twitter content in different ways. While comparing studies is difficult due to the number of different methods that have been used for applying Twitter and interpreting data, this state-of-the-art review demonstrates the vast potential of utilizing Twitter for public health surveillance purposes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/data4010006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,31]],"date-time":"2018-12-31T07:22:30Z","timestamp":1546240950000},"page":"6","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":120,"title":["Using Twitter for Public Health Surveillance from Monitoring and Prediction to Public Response"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0913-6946","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sophie E.","family":"Jordan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA"}]},{"given":"Sierra E.","family":"Hovet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5496-2529","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Isaac Chun-Hai","family":"Fung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1779-9552","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hai","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}]},{"given":"King-Wa","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9741-1137","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zion Tsz Ho","family":"Tse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"25","article-title":"Epidemiology for public health practice","volume":"20","author":"Friss","year":"1999","journal-title":"Epidemiology"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"3","article-title":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public health surveillance in the United States: Evolution and challenges","volume":"61","author":"Thacker","year":"2012","journal-title":"MMWR Surveill. 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