Infinitesimal risk as public health crisis: News media coverage of a doctor-patient HIV contact tracing investigation

1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 1685-1695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julianne Brown ◽  
Simon Chapman ◽  
Deborah Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis

COVID-19 crisis risks deeper European rifts on privacy

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Digital Strategy ◽  
Mass Surveillance ◽  
The Eu

Subject New privacy guidelines. Significance The EU wants contact tracing apps for tackling COVID-19 to be effective, secure and privacy-compliant. Its efforts have exposed how its existing rules on data are adapting (or not) to the extraordinary public health crisis. Impacts Fear of mass surveillance and data breaches will reduce public participation in tracer apps, casting doubts over their effectiveness. The EU’s digital strategy, notably in terms of reviewing the effectiveness of GDPR, may be rethought in response to the COVID-19 crisis. If tracer apps are not inter-operable across national borders, lifting intra-EU travel restrictions will become harder.

scholarly journals Women Leaders and Policy Compliance during a Public Health Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-982
Author(s):  
Nichole M. Bauer ◽  
Jeong Hyun Kim ◽  
Yesola Kweon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Compliance ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Policy Measures

AbstractHow does the gender of a political leader affect policy compliance of the public during a public health crisis? State and national leaders have taken a variety of policy measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, with varying levels of success. While many female leaders have been credited with containing the spread of COVID-19, often through implementing strict policy measures, there is little understanding of how individuals respond to public health policy recommendations made by female and male leaders. This article investigates whether citizens are more willing to comply with strict policy recommendations about a public health issue when those recommendations are made by a female leader rather than a male leader. Using a survey experiment with American citizens, we compare individuals’ willingness to comply with policy along three dimensions: social distancing, face covering, and contact tracing. Our findings show that a leader's gender has little impact on policy compliance in general during the pandemic. These findings carry important implications for successful crisis management as well as understanding how a crisis in a nonmasculine issue context influences the effectiveness of a leader's ability to implement measures to mitigate the crisis.

Pandemic Tales

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Mark Davis ◽  
Davina Lohm
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Coming To Know

Chapter 2 considers in more detail the growing significance of narrative approaches to health communication on pandemic threats, reflecting on the conceptual bases for this turn in light of perspectives from narrative theory and biopolitical accounts of infectious diseases. Key themes are the folk-tale undercurrents of pandemic narratives that appear in news media and in the advice of experts and therefore also their significance for the individuals who engage with them. A key point is that narrative and its mediations are a primary point of contact for publics coming to know of a rapidly emerging public health crisis. In this respect, we introduce Sarah’s story of how she realized that she was herself possibly at risk of the virus, in part because of stories on the pandemic circulated in media she consumed.

scholarly journals Particle-Based COVID-19 Simulator with Contact Tracing and Testing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Askat Kuzdeuov ◽  
Aknur Karabay ◽  
Daulet Baimukashev ◽  
Bauyrzhan Ibragimov ◽  
Huseyin Atakan Varol
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Random Testing ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Intervention Measures

Goal: COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as the most severe public health crisis in over a century. As of December 2020, there are more than 60 million cases and 1.4 million deaths. For informed decision making, reliable statistical data and capable simulation tools are needed. Our goal is to develop an epidemic simulator that can model the effects of random population testing and contact tracing. Methods: Our simulator models individuals as particles with position, velocity and epidemic status states on a 2D map and runs a SEIR epidemic model with contact tracing and testing modules. The simulator is available in GitHub under MIT license. Results: The results show that the synergistic use of contact tracing and massive testing is effective in suppressing the epidemic (the number of deaths was reduced by 72%). Conclusions: Particle-based COVID-19 simulator enables the modeling of intervention measures, random testing and contact tracing, for epidemic mitigation and suppression.

Coverage of the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic on YouTube

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 531-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey H. Basch ◽  
Charles E. Basch ◽  
Kelly V. Ruggles ◽  
Rodney Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Ebola Virus Disease ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Public Health Crisis

ABSTRACTObjectiveThe recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014–2015 has been the largest and longest lasting to date. Media coverage about the outbreak has been extensive, but there are large gaps in our understanding of the ways in which widely accessed social media sites are used during times of public health crisis. The purpose of this study was to analyze widely viewed videos about EVD on the YouTube video-sharing site.MethodsWe coded the source, content, and characteristics of the 100 most widely viewed videos about EVD on YouTube.ResultsThe videos included in the sample were viewed more than 73 million times. The death toll in West Africa was mentioned in nearly one-third of the videos. Over one-third of the videos mentioned how EVD was generally transmitted. There was little mention of treatment and no mention of the need for US funding of disaster preparedness; coordination between local, state, and federal governments; or beds ready for containment. No significant differences in the number of views were identified between video sources with the exception of a significantly higher number of views for “consumer videos” compared with “commercial television videos.”ConclusionsWith 1 billion unique users a month, YouTube has potential for both enhancing education and spreading misinformation. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:531-535)

Molecular characterization of SARS-CoV-2

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miribane Dërmaku-Sopjani ◽  
Mentor Sopjani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Drug Targets ◽  
Virus Genome ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Therapeutic Drugs ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
New Public ◽  
And Function

Abstract:: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a new public health crisis threatening the world. This pandemic disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus has been reported to be originated in bats and by yet unknown intermediary animals were transmitted to humans in China 2019. The SARSCoV- 2 spreads faster than its two ancestors the SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV) but has reduced fatality. At present, the SARS-CoV-2 has caused about a 1.16 million of deaths with more than 43.4 million confirmed cases worldwide, resulting in a serious threat to public health globally with yet uncertain impact. The disease is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with an infected person. The incubation period ranges from 1 to 14 days. COVID-19 is accompanied by various symptoms, including cough, fatigue. In most people the disease is mild, but in some other people, such as in elderly and people with chronic diseases, it may progress from pneumonia to a multi-organ dysfunction. Many people are reported asymptomatic. The virus genome is sequenced, but new variants are reported. Numerous biochemical aspects of its structure and function are revealed. To date, no clinically approved vaccines and/or specific therapeutic drugs are available to prevent or treat the COVID-19. However, there are reported intensive researches on the SARSCoV- 2 to potentially identify vaccines and/or drug targets, which may help to overcome the disease. In this review, we discuss recent advances in understanding the molecular structure of SARS-CoV-2 and its biochemical characteristics.

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