Table 5.
Thematic framework of social media functions in public health crises by year
| The role of social media | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
| Surveillance monitoring | Disease detection and prediction | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | |||
| Public attitude and attention | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 13 | ||
| Public sentiment and mental health | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 21 | ||||||
| Risk communication | Health advice | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 7 | |||
| Information-seeking behaviour | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Infodemics-misinformation circulation | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 14 | |||||||
| Seeking help online | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Online distance education | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Telehealth | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Disease control | Government response | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 10 | ||||
| Public behaviour change | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | ||||||||
| Health education information quality | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||