Challenges in media monitoring of worldwide news sources to support public health

Real-time global media monitoring is nowadays an essential resource to public health. Multilingual capabilities can enrich this potential allowing a worldwide overview based on online news sources, blog posts or social media. In this paper we propose research topics related with the exploration text mining tools used to provide real-time global media monitoring in the context of health. We aim to understand how media can contribute to a better overview of health related and well being matters. With it we shall also identify open research questions that motivate further technological development to better fit the needs, interests and workflow of public health professionals.