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Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1588) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1155) Smoking Cessation (645) Information Retrieval (358) Public (e)Health, Digital Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics (1081)

Published on in Vol 24, No 12 (2022): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/42619, first published .
Predicting Smoking Prevalence in Japan Using Search Volumes in an Internet Search Engine: Infodemiology Study

Predicting Smoking Prevalence in Japan Using Search Volumes in an Internet Search Engine: Infodemiology Study

Predicting Smoking Prevalence in Japan Using Search Volumes in an Internet Search Engine: Infodemiology Study

Authors of this article:

Kazuya Taira1 Author Orcid Image ;   Takahiro Itaya2 Author Orcid Image ;   Sumio Fujita3 Author Orcid Image
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