scholarly journals Innovations on Dementia Advocacy among Students of a Medical University in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 810-810
Author(s):  
Tsuann Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Health ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Early Onset Dementia ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Taichung City ◽  
Global Action ◽  
Medical University

Abstract In 2017, Taiwan established Dementia Action Plans 2.0 to respond to the World Health Organization's call to increase dementia awareness and support for dementia carers. However, efforts have not yet been made to educate and increase dementia literacy on the younger generations. This paper addressed the outcomes to increase knowledge and information about dementia and caregiver resources to university students. 93 students participated in a two-day workshop on dementia literacy, followed by two months of advocacy in Taichung City, Taiwan. Students were divided into 14 advocacy groups and the outcome reports were categorized qualitatively using content analysis. The results showed that students were from nine departments and over one-quarter having a dementia loved one in the family. Four innovative categories were developed, including (1) dementia literacy for students and the public; (2) dementia friendly action plans; (3) dementia caregiver’s advocacy and (4) reducing dementia stereotypes. Highlights included students using social media to promote dementia literacy, face-to-face experiences to inform public education, dementia education on early onset dementia and using diverse bio-psycho-social angels to evaluate dementia. Students expanded advocacy to many social media, innovations and target areas, including Facebook, Instagram, Google spreadsheet, stickers, postcards, illustration of children’s books and public announcement. This paper revealed that younger generations used many advocacy methods that were thinking outside of the box. In conclusion, dementia is no longer an elder’s business but young adults can bring technological, inter-generational and cultural innovations into fulfilling the goals of Dementia Global Action Plans.

Developing a Skilled Workforce: Impact of a Postgraduate Programme on Dementia Knowledge, Attitudes and Training Needs

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
C. Scerri
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Healthcare Profession ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Global Action

In 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched the global action plan on the public health response to dementia. Among its many aims, the plan recommends the need to create a knowledge-based healthcare profession that delivers evidence-based, culturally-appropriate and human rights-orientated health and social care, including long-term services for individuals with dementia.

scholarly journals The “Obiettivo Antibiotico” Campaign on Prudent Use of Antibiotics in Sicily, Italy: The Pilot Phase

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Barchitta ◽  
Annalisa Quattrocchi ◽  
Andrea Maugeri ◽  
Maria Clara La Rosa ◽  
Claudia La Mastra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
General Public ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pilot Phase ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a focus of the World Health Organization, which proposes educational interventions targeting the public and healthcare professionals. Here, we present the first attempt at a regionwide multicomponent campaign in Sicily (Italy), called “Obiettivo Antibiotico”, which aims to raise the awareness of prudent use of antibiotics in the public and in healthcare professionals. The campaign was designed by an interdisciplinary academic team, and an interactive website was populated with different materials, including key messages, letters, slogans, posters, factsheets, leaflets, and videos. The campaign was launched in November 2018 and, as of 21 December 2018, the website had a total of 1159 unique visitors, of which 190 became champions by pledging to take simple actions to support the fight against AMR. Data from social media showed that the audience was between 18 and 54 years of age, with a high proportion of female participants (64%). Interestingly, the LinkedIn page received more than 1200 followers, and Facebook 685 followers. The number of actions taken (pledges) by the audience was 458, evenly divided between experts (53%) and the general public (47%). Additional efforts are needed to reach more people, thus future efforts should focus on further promotion within the Sicilian region to sustain the engagement with the campaign.

scholarly journals The global governance of antimicrobial resistance: a cross-country study of alignment between the global action plan and national action plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Munkholm ◽  
Olivier Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
World Health ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Vertical Alignment ◽  
Member States ◽  
Horizontal Alignment ◽  
Global Action ◽  
Global Action Plan

Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing problem worldwide in need of global coordinated action. With the endorsement of the Global Action Plan (GAP) on AMR in 2015, the 194 member states of the World Health Organization committed to integrating the five objectives and corresponding actions of the GAP into national action plans (NAPs) on AMR. The article analyzes patterns of alignment between existing NAPs and the GAP, bringing to the fore new methodologies for exploring the relationship between globally driven health policies and activities at the national level, taking income, geography and governance factors into account. Methods The article investigates the global governance of AMR. Concretely, two proxies are devised to measure vertical and horizontal alignment between the GAP and existing NAPs: (i) a syntactic indicator measuring the degree of verbatim overlap between the GAP and the NAPs; and (ii) a content indicator measuring the extent to which the objectives and corresponding actions outlined in the GAP are addressed in the NAPs. Vertical alignment is measured by the extent to which each NAP overlaps with the GAP. Horizontal alignment is explored by measuring the degree to which NAPs overlap with other NAPs across regions and income groups. In addition, NAP implementation is explored using the Global Database for Antimicrobial Resistance Country Self-Assessment. Findings We find strong evidence of vertical alignment, particularly among low-income countries and lower-middle-income countries but weaker evidence of horizontal alignment within regions. In general, we find the NAPs in our sample to be mostly aligned with the GAP’s five overarching objectives while only moderately aligned with the recommended corresponding actions. Furthermore, we see several cases of what can be termed ‘isomorphic mimicry’, characterized by strong alignment in the policies outlined but much lower levels of alignment in terms of actual implemented policies. Conclusion To strengthen the alignment of national AMR policies, we recommend global governance initiatives based on individualized responsibilities some of which should be legally binding. Our study provides limited evidence of horizontal alignment within regions, which implies that regional governance institutions (e.g., WHO regional offices) should primarily act as mediators between global and local demands to strengthen a global governance regime that minimizes policy fragmentation and mimicry behavior across member states.

scholarly journals Kampanye Komunikasi Ecotransport dalam Mengurangi Transportasi Pribadi

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Rahmadhani Ayu Harvianti ◽  
Oji Kurniadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Communication Campaign ◽  
The People ◽  
Personal Transportation ◽  
The Government

Abstract. Ecotransport Indonesia is still fresh with diverse activities, from walking, public transportation, and cycling. The thing that is most crowded with the people of Bandung is cycling. Based on this phenomenon, the problem in this research is formulated as follows: (1) How does ecotransport plan a communication campaign program about reducing personal transportation? (2) How does ecotransport choose media as a publication tool? (3) Why does ecotransport use a persuasive approach in the communication campaign to reduce personal transportation? Researcher using qualitative case studies. Data collection techniques used in this study were interviews with key informan, observation, and literature. The results of this study are: The results obtained from this research are (1) the planning of the campaign carried out by determining the issues raised, one of which is in the discipline of driving, setting goals to provide education about environmentally friendly transportation or by other names Ecotransport, determining the message delivered to the public, this audience from Ecotransport which is not only focused on the community but also on the government as well and the strategy used is communication that is done face-to-face and persuasive through social media but still not maximized. (2) Media publications include conducting talk shows on the radio, in addition to making e-posters uploaded through social media. (3) The use of face-to-face communication to provide clear explanations will protect the environment. Abstrak. Ecotransport Indonesia ini terbilang masih fresh dengan kegiatan yang beraneka ragam, dari berjalan kaki, transportasi umum dan bersepeda. Hal yang paling ramai diikuti oleh masyarakat kota Bandung adalah bersepeda. Berdasarkan fenomena ini, masalah dalam penelitian ini dirumuskan sebagai berikut: (1) Bagaimana ecotransport merencanakan program kampanye komunikasi tentang pengurangan transportasi pribadi? (2) Bagaimana ecotransport memilih media sebagai alat publikasi? (3) Mengapa ecotransport menggunakan pendekatan persuasif dalam kampanye komunikasi untuk mengurangi transportasi pribadi? Peneliti menggunakan studi kasus kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah wawancara dengan informan kunci, observasi, dan studi pustaka. Hasil yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini adalah (1) perencanaan kampanye yang dilakukan adalah menentukan isu yang diangkat salah satunya adalah dalam disiplin berkendara, penyusunan tujuan untuk memberikan edukasi mengenai transportasi ramah lingkungan atau dengan nama lain Ecotransport, menentukan pesan yang disampaikan kepada khalayak publik, khalayak dari Ecotransport ini yang tidak hanya terfokus kepada masyarakat saja melainkan kepada pemerintah juga dan strategi yang digunakan adalah komunikasi yang dilakukan secara face-to-face dan persuasive melalui media sosial dan hasilnya belum maksimal. (2) Media publikasi yang dilakukan yaitu melakukan talkshow di radio, selain itu dengan membuat e-poster yang diunggah melalui media sosial. (3) Penggunaan komunikasi secara tatap muka ini untuk memberikan penjelasan yang jelas akan menjaga lingkungan sekitar.

scholarly journals The Structure of Tweets about Vaccine Safety Between Health Organizations, Experts and the Public: Analyzing Risk Communication Conversations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
David Manheim ◽  
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Vaccine Safety ◽  
World Health ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Conversational Structure

Abstract This paper considers how health education organizations in the World Health Organization's Vaccine Safety Network (VSN) use Twitter to communicate about vaccines with the public, and whether they answer questions and engage in conversations. Almost no research in public health, to our knowledge, has explored conversational structure on social media among posts sent by different accounts. Starting with 1,017,176 tweets by relevant users, we constructed two corpuses of multi-tweet conversations. The first was 1,814 conversations that included VSN members directly, while the second was 2,283 conversations mentioning vaccines or vaccine denialism. The tweets and user metadata was then analyzed using an adaptation of Rhetorical Structure Theory. In the studied data, VSN members tweeted 12,677 times within conversations, compared to their 37,587 lone tweets. Their conversations were shorter than those in the comparison corpus (P < 0.0001), and they were involved in fewer multilogues (P < 0.0001). We also see that while there is diversity among organizations, most were tied to the pre-social-media broadcast model. In the future, they should try to converse more, rather than tweet more, and embrace best-practices in risk-communication.

Education During COVID-19 Outbreak: College of Pharmacy Experience (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulkareem M. Albekairy ◽  
Shmeylan Al Harbi ◽  
Mohammad Shawaqfeh ◽  
Abdulmalik A Alkatheri ◽  
Aiman Obaidat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
World Health ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Continuous Assessment ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Contact Hours ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

UNSTRUCTURED In response to the announcement of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, a worldwide closure of schools and educational institutions has been implemented to combat the spread of the disease. This has resulted in transferring from face-to-face teaching to virtual schooling and e-learning to continue the second semester of the academic year 2019-2020. The main objective of this article is to review and reflect on the experience of the College of Pharmacy at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in implementing action plans concerning applying e-learning in the delivery of the remaining curriculum and assessment methods after the announcement of COVID-19 pandemic. The feedback of the students was surveyed to address issues of preparedness, attitude and barriers concerning e-learning. Action plans were implemented at the university and the college levels. The educational process went very smooth by e-learning and several assessment methods have been applied in continuous assessment and final examinations. A total of 170 contact hours have been delivered by live broadcasting whereas 125 contact hours were recorded. Minimal number of lectures and topic discussion sessions have been deleted and some have been transferred to the next semester. The survey results indicated good satisfaction of the students in the e-learning process were approximately 75% of them have responded to a survey that was prepared for this purpose. This experience could provide a helpful guidance and insight to deal with such a crisis to rapidly move from regular educational activities by face-to-face teaching to e-learning.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of Indonesian Public Conversation about COVID-19 Epidemics on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Habibi ◽  
Adri Priadana ◽  
Muhammad Rifqi Ma’arif
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in more than six million confirmed cases and more than 371,000 deaths globally on June 1, 2020. The incident sparked a flood of scientific research to help society deal with the virus, both inside and outside the medical domain. Research related to public health analysis and public conversations about the spread of COVID-19 on social media is one of the highlights of researchers in the world. People can analyze information from social media as supporting data about public health. Analyzing public conversations will help the relevant authorities understand public opinion and information gaps between them and the public, helping them develop appropriate emergency response strategies to address existing problems in the community during the pandemic and provide information on the population's emotions in different contexts. However, research related to the analysis of public health and public conversations was so far conducted only through supervised analysis of textual data. In this study, we aim to analyze specifically the sentiment and topic modeling of Indonesian public conversations about the COVID-19 on Twitter using the NLP technique. We applied some methods to analyze the sentiment to obtain the best classification method. In this study, the topic modeling was carried out unsupervised using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The results of this study reveal that the most frequently discussed topic related to the COVID-19 pandemic is economic issues.

scholarly journals Twittering About Research: A Case Study of the World’s First Twitter Poster Competition

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward P. Randviir ◽  
Samuel M. Illingworth ◽  
Matthew J. Baker ◽  
Matthew Cude ◽  
Craig E. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Poster Presentations

The Royal Society of Chemistry held, to our knowledge, the world’s first Twitter conference at 9am on February 5 th, 2015. The conference was a Twitter-only conference, allowing researchers to upload academic posters as tweets, replacing a physical meeting. This paper reports the details of the event and discusses the outcomes, such as the potential for the use of social media to enhance scientific communication at conferences. In particular, the present work argues that social media outlets such as Twitter broaden audiences, speed up communication, and force clearer and more concise descriptions of a researcher’s work. The benefits of poster presentations are also discussed in terms of potential knowledge exchange and networking. This paper serves as a proof-of-concept approach for improving both the public opinion of the poster, and the enhancement of the poster through an innovative online format that some may feel more comfortable with, compared to face-to-face communication.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI SOSIAL MASYARAKAT MELALUI KONTEN EDUKATIF MENGENAI KETAHANAN AIR

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Desi Yunita ◽  
Bintarsih Sekarningrum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Water

This activity is intended to increase public awareness about why water resilience is important. Efforts to improve community water resilience done by providing educational content containing messages on water resilience through booklets, posters, animations, or short videos about how to increase water resilience practically by the community. So that the message of this water resilience campaign is spread to the wider community, these educational media are disseminated online via social media or shared directly when done face-to-face virtually. The method of dissemination through dissemination through social media or virtual presentations is chosen so that the message can be received appropriately while maintaining health protocols. So, even though it is still hit by a pandemic, the public can still be invited to participate in this activity. 

scholarly journals COVID-19 Vaccine–Related Discussion on Twitter: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Chen Lyu ◽  
Eileen Le Han ◽  
Garving K Luli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
World Health ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Emotion Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

BACKGROUND Vaccination is a cornerstone of the prevention of communicable infectious diseases; however, vaccines have traditionally met with public fear and hesitancy, and COVID-19 vaccines are no exception. Social media use has been demonstrated to play a role in the low acceptance of vaccines. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to identify the topics and sentiments in the public COVID-19 vaccine–related discussion on social media and discern the salient changes in topics and sentiments over time to better understand the public perceptions, concerns, and emotions that may influence the achievement of herd immunity goals. METHODS Tweets were downloaded from a large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter data set from March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, to January 31, 2021. We used R software to clean the tweets and retain tweets that contained the keywords <i>vaccination</i>, <i>vaccinations</i>, <i>vaccine</i>, <i>vaccines</i>, <i>immunization</i>, <i>vaccinate</i>, and <i>vaccinated</i>. The final data set included in the analysis consisted of 1,499,421 unique tweets from 583,499 different users. We used R to perform latent Dirichlet allocation for topic modeling as well as sentiment and emotion analysis using the National Research Council of Canada Emotion Lexicon. RESULTS Topic modeling of tweets related to COVID-19 vaccines yielded 16 topics, which were grouped into 5 overarching themes. Opinions about vaccination (227,840/1,499,421 tweets, 15.2%) was the most tweeted topic and remained a highly discussed topic during the majority of the period of our examination. Vaccine progress around the world became the most discussed topic around August 11, 2020, when Russia approved the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine. With the advancement of vaccine administration, the topic of instruction on getting vaccines gradually became more salient and became the most discussed topic after the first week of January 2021. Weekly mean sentiment scores showed that despite fluctuations, the sentiment was increasingly positive in general. Emotion analysis further showed that trust was the most predominant emotion, followed by anticipation, fear, sadness, etc. The trust emotion reached its peak on November 9, 2020, when Pfizer announced that its vaccine is 90% effective. CONCLUSIONS Public COVID-19 vaccine–related discussion on Twitter was largely driven by major events about COVID-19 vaccines and mirrored the active news topics in mainstream media. The discussion also demonstrated a global perspective. The increasingly positive sentiment around COVID-19 vaccines and the dominant emotion of trust shown in the social media discussion may imply higher acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines compared with previous vaccines.

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