US Patent 10290377 Social health risk estimation

A method, a processing device, and a computer program product are provided. In various embodiments, one or more processing devices retrieves one or more network communications. The one or more network communications are analyzed, by the at least one processing device, and identifies objects referred to in the network communications having frequent physical contact with different entities. A resulting health risk is produced by aggregating the health risk for each identified object. Based on the resulting health risk, a modified course of action for an entity is advised.