scholarly journals The contribution of state web portals to the transparency of the vaccination process against COVID-19 in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. e3208
Author(s):  
Fabiano Maury Raupp ◽  
Ana Rita Silva Sacramento
Keyword(s):  
Federal District ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Study Data ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Technological Imperative ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Vaccination Campaigns ◽  
The Web

The article aimed to characterize the contribution of Brazilian state web portals to the transparency of the vaccination process against COVID-19. This research is descriptive, undertaken through a documentary study with a quali-quantitative approach. The purpose of the investigation comprises the web portals of the 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District. The study was guided by the application of the COVID-19 Vaccination Transparency Index (ITVC-19). The study data were obtained in six surveys carried out from the analysis of the portals, using content analysis as the processing technique. The constancy of some states at higher and lower levels (i.e., the extremes) and the evolution of others going from lower to higher levels was observed. Although the vast majority of web portals of Brazilian states contribute to the transparency of the vaccination against COVID-19, there are still states the portal of which, for being at opaque, low, or intermediary levels, seem to exist more due to a dominant technological imperative and less to favor the transparency of government actions. The study has a direct theoretical implication when it enables the development of an index that contributes to analyzing the transparency in the vaccination process against COVID-19. It is assumed that, in the future, the index may also be used for new studies on vaccination campaigns, not just this one restricted to the pandemic context. Consequently, it contributes to bridging the gap in the literature, notably the national literature. The practical contribution is also demonstrated by the provision of a diagnosis that, albeit specific, may be used by public managers interested in advancing vaccination transparency.

Health Information on the Web for Canadian Teens: A Survey of Web Portals Designed for Teen Health Information Seekers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Bowler
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
General Health ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Environmental Scan ◽  
The Web

This paper reports on an environmental scan of the Web, the purpose of which was to identify and describe portals to general health information, in English and French, designed specifically for teens.Cet article présente une analyse de l'environnement du Web dont le but est d'identifier et de décrire les portails regroupant de l'information générale sur la santé, en anglais et en français, conçus précisément pour les adolescents. 

Assessment of E-Government Portals

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Framework Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Government Portal ◽  
The Web

This research revealed the importance of public service web portals for an e-government information system. An e-government portal is interacting with its administrators, citizens, businesses and other governments helping them increase their operations performance. The authors have developed, modeled, formulated and compared an efficient assessment framework for e-government portals. In order to accomplish such task many quantitative factors and indicators were taken under consideration; also, other frameworks have been studied and compared. The authors focused on the web portals services quantity that the interested parties should use, in order to create an well designed public services’ web portal. This research provides a framework model to evaluate the basic common digital public services that a government offers to its interactive stakeholders, so that all other countries across the world can predefine weaknesses and strengths, improve existing or formulating new e-services. The importance of the assessment framework model is thoroughly explained through the results.

scholarly journals Characteristics of older adults using patient web portals to view their DXA results

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Edmonds ◽  
Yiyue Lou ◽  
Brandi Robinson ◽  
Peter Cram ◽  
Douglas W. Roblin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bone Density ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Patient Characteristics ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Kaiser Permanente ◽  
The Web

Abstract Background Sharing test results with patients via patient web portals is a new trend in healthcare. No research has been done examining patient web portal use with bone density test results. The objective of our study was to identify patient characteristics associated with the use of patient web portals to view their bone density test results. Methods A secondary analysis of data from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of 7749 participants ≥50 years old that had presented for a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) bone density test. Patients were interviewed at enrollment and 12 weeks later. Multivariable logistic regression identified patient characteristics that differentiated those who used the web portal from those who did not. Results Our sample included 4669 patients at the two (University of Iowa [UI], and Kaiser Permanente of Georgia [KPGA]) clinical sites that had patient web portals. Of these patients, 3399 (72.8%) reported knowing their test results 12 weeks post-DXA, with 649 (13.9%) reporting that they viewed their DXA results using the web portal. Web portal users were more likely to be from UI than KPGA, and were younger, more educated, had higher health literacy, had osteopenia, and had the same sex as their referring physician (all p < 0.05). Conclusion Only 19.1% of the 3399 patients who knew their DXA results used the available patient web portals to find out about them. Web portal users differed from non-users on several characteristics. This suggests that simply making patient web portals available for use may not be sufficient to appreciably enhance patient awareness of their test results. Based on these findings, a better understanding of the reasons why older, less educated, and less activated patients do not access their test results through patient web portals is needed.

WSRP-O

2011 ◽  
pp. 424-442
Author(s):  
Mª Ángeles Moraga ◽  
Ignacio García-Rodríguez de Guzmán ◽  
Coral Calero ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Common Interface ◽  
The Web

The use of Web portals continues to rise, showing their importance in the current information society. Specifically, this chapter focuses on portlet-based portals. Portlets are Web components, and they can be thought of as COTS but in a Web setting. Recently, the Web service for remote portlets (WSRP) standard has come into existence. Its aim is to provide a common interface in order to allow the communication between portal and portlets. Bearing all that in mind, in this chapter we propose an ontology for this standard. This ontology offers an understandable summary of the standard. Thus, the ontology leads both portlet and portal developers to focus their effort on developing the portlet domain logic instead of implementing its communication.

Semantic Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 887-893
Author(s):  
Brooke Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Information Presentation ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Web

Web portals provide an entry point for information presentation and exchange over the Internet for various domains of interest. Current Internet technologies, however, often fail to provide users of Web portals with the type of information or level of service they require. Limitations associated with the Web affect the users of Web portals ability to search, access, extract, interpret, and process information. The Semantic Web (Berners-Lee, Hendler, & Lassila, 2001) enables new approaches to the design of such portals and has the potential of overcoming these limitations by enabling machines to interpret information so that it can be integrated and processed more effectively.

Personalizing Web Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 699-704
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan
Keyword(s):  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Specific Community ◽  
Share Information ◽  
The Web

A Web portal is a gateway to the information and services on the Web where its users can interchange and share information (Tatnall, 2005). It is designed and implemented for a specific community. However, it is unlikely that people who access a Web portal are all so similar in their interests that one standardized way of delivering information fits all needs. This has motivated the need for personalization in Web portals.

African Web Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esharenana E. Adomi
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) has led to the advent of the information age. With increased demand for information from various quarters, the Web has turned out to be a veritable resource. Web surfers in the early days were frustrated by the delay in finding the information they needed. The first major leap for information retrieval came from the deployment of Web search engines such as Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, etc. The rapid growth in the popularity of the Web during the past few years has led to a precipitous pronouncement of death for the online services that preceded the Web in the wired world.

Systematic design of the web portals

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Takac ◽  
Jan Ligus ◽  
Jan Sarnovsky
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Design ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals The Development of Baby Feed: A Web Application for Health Professionals and Parents to Improve Infant Diets

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 963-963
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bolton ◽  
Cristina !Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Infant Food ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Early Childhood Obesity ◽  
The Web

Abstract Objectives To develop the web application “Baby Feed” that can: 1) Quickly and easily evaluate infant diets using a validated Infant Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) developed by our group. 2) Provide automatic results online to clinicians on nutrients and foods/beverages consumed above or below the recommended levels. 3) Provide current diet recommendations by infant's age for clinicians to discuss with parents during routine Well-Child Visits. 4) Provide parents online access to the infant diet recommendations and a short tracking question component, with the goal of improving the infant's diet. This could translate into healthy weight gain during infancy and prevent early childhood obesity. Methods In collaboration with the computer science department, our group previously converted the 55-item Infant FFQ and nutrient/food database from paper format to web portals in Baby Feed. The web portals were built in MongoDB and deployed on Microsoft Azure. Next, a secure login system with usernames and passwords was created that directs users to their assigned portal: administrative, parental, or clinician. Tabs were created in the portals that show FFQ results, diet recommendations, and tracking history. The short tracking questions were created for parents to select whether their infant had consumed more, equal, or less than the recommended amounts of the 10 food groups during the past week. Results Baby Feed was developed where: (1) Parents can complete the Infant FFQ online. (2) Clinicians can view the automatic results, which are available in nutrients and foods/beverages color-coded to highlight those consumed above or below the recommended levels. (3) Diet recommendations are presented online in a friendly and graphic way that are easy to follow in tablespoons, cups, and ounces per day. (4) The short tracking questions can help parents at home make goals and stayed engaged in between Well-Child Visits. This use of technology can allow parents at their convenience to access knowledge in Baby Feed and develop skills in infant feeding. Conclusions The development of Baby Feed was successful, and the web application is ready to be pilot tested. Baby Feed could be used by health professionals and parents during routine Well-Child Visits as a tool to improve the diet quality in infants and prevent early childhood obesity. Funding Sources Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood

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