Chinese Public's Attention to the COVID-19 Epidemic on Social Media: Observational Descriptive Study

Background Since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in China in December 2019, information and discussions about COVID-19 have spread rapidly on the internet and have quickly become the focus of worldwide attention, especially on social media. Objective This study aims to investigate and analyze the public’s attention to events related to COVID-19 in China at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic (December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020) through the Sina Microblog hot search list. Methods We collected topics related to the COVID-19 epidemic on the Sina Microblog hot search list from December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020, and described the trend of public attention on COVID-19 epidemic-related topics. ROST Content Mining System version 6.0 was used to analyze the collected text for word segmentation, word frequency, and sentiment analysis. We further described the hot topic keywords and sentiment trends of public attention. We used VOSviewer to implement a visual cluster analysis of hot keywords and build a social network of public opinion content. Results The study has four main findings. First, we analyzed the changing trend of the public’s attention to the COVID-19 epidemic, which can be divided into three stages. Second, the hot topic keywords of public attention at each stage were slightly different. Third, the emotional tendency of the public toward the COVID-19 epidemic-related hot topics changed from negative to neutral, with negative emotions weakening and positive emotions increasing as a whole. Fourth, we divided the COVID-19 topics with the most public concern into five categories: the situation of the new cases of COVID-19 and its impact, frontline reporting of the epidemic and the measures of prevention and control, expert interpretation and discussion on the source of infection, medical services on the frontline of the epidemic, and focus on the worldwide epidemic and the search for suspected cases. Conclusions Our study found that social media (eg, Sina Microblog) can be used to measure public attention toward public health emergencies. During the epidemic of the novel coronavirus, a large amount of information about the COVID-19 epidemic was disseminated on Sina Microblog and received widespread public attention. We have learned about the hotspots of public concern regarding the COVID-19 epidemic. These findings can help the government and health departments better communicate with the public on health and translate public health needs into practice to create targeted measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19.

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Chinese Public's Attention to the COVID-19 Epidemic on Social Media: Observational Descriptive Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.18825 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yuxin Zhao ◽

Sixiang Cheng ◽

Xiaoyan Yu ◽

Huilan Xu

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Public Concern ◽

Public Attention ◽

Mining System ◽

The Public ◽

Source Of Infection ◽

The Government ◽

And Control

BACKGROUND Since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in China in December 2019, information and discussions about COVID-19 have spread rapidly on the internet and have quickly become the focus of worldwide attention, especially on social media. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate and analyze the public’s attention to events related to COVID-19 in China at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic (December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020) through the Sina Microblog hot search list. METHODS We collected topics related to the COVID-19 epidemic on the Sina Microblog hot search list from December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020, and described the trend of public attention on COVID-19 epidemic-related topics. ROST Content Mining System version 6.0 was used to analyze the collected text for word segmentation, word frequency, and sentiment analysis. We further described the hot topic keywords and sentiment trends of public attention. We used VOSviewer to implement a visual cluster analysis of hot keywords and build a social network of public opinion content. RESULTS The study has four main findings. First, we analyzed the changing trend of the public’s attention to the COVID-19 epidemic, which can be divided into three stages. Second, the hot topic keywords of public attention at each stage were slightly different. Third, the emotional tendency of the public toward the COVID-19 epidemic-related hot topics changed from negative to neutral, with negative emotions weakening and positive emotions increasing as a whole. Fourth, we divided the COVID-19 topics with the most public concern into five categories: the situation of the new cases of COVID-19 and its impact, frontline reporting of the epidemic and the measures of prevention and control, expert interpretation and discussion on the source of infection, medical services on the frontline of the epidemic, and focus on the worldwide epidemic and the search for suspected cases. CONCLUSIONS Our study found that social media (eg, Sina Microblog) can be used to measure public attention toward public health emergencies. During the epidemic of the novel coronavirus, a large amount of information about the COVID-19 epidemic was disseminated on Sina Microblog and received widespread public attention. We have learned about the hotspots of public concern regarding the COVID-19 epidemic. These findings can help the government and health departments better communicate with the public on health and translate public health needs into practice to create targeted measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19.

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Chinese Public Attention to COVID-19 Epidemic: Based on Social Media

10.1101/2020.03.18.20038026 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Yuxin Zhao ◽

Huilan Xu

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Control Measures ◽

Public Concern ◽

Public Attention ◽

Mining System ◽

The Public ◽

The Government ◽

And Control

AbstractBackgroundSince the new coronavirus epidemic in China in December 2019, information and discussions about COVID-19 have spread rapidly on the Internet and have quickly become the focus of worldwide attention, especially on social media.ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate and analyze the public’s attention to COVID-19-related events in China at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in China (December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020) through the Sina Microblog hot search list.MethodsWe collected topics related to the COVID-19 epidemic on the Sina Microblog hot search list from December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020 and described the trend of public attention on COVID-19 epidemic-related topics. ROST CM6.0 (ROST Content Mining System Version 6.0) was used to analyze the collected text for word segmentation, word frequency, and sentiment analysis. We further described the hot topic keywords and sentiment trends of public attention. We used VOSviewer to implement a visual cluster analysis of hot keywords and build a social network of public opinion content.ResultsThe study has four main findings. First, we analyzed the changing trend of the public’s attention to the COVID-19 epidemic, which can be divided into three stages. Second, the hot topic keywords of public attention at each stage are slightly different. In addition, the emotional tendency of the public toward the COVID-19 epidemic-related hot topics has changed from negative to neutral, with negative emotions weakening and positive emotions increasing as a whole. Finally, we divided the COVID-19 topics with the most public concern into five categories: new COVID-19 epidemics and their impact; (2) frontline reporting of the epidemic and prevention and control measures; (3) expert interpretation and discussion on the source of infection; (4) medical services on the frontline of the epidemic; and (5) focus on the global epidemic and the search for suspected cases.ConclusionsThis is the first study of public attention on the COVID-19 epidemic using a Chinese social media platform (i.e., Sina Microblog). Our study found that social media (e.g., Sina Microblog) can be used to measure public attention to public health emergencies. During the epidemic of the novel coronavirus, a large amount of information about the COVID-19 epidemic was disseminated on Sina Microblog and received widespread public attention. We have learned about the hotspots of public concern regarding the COVID-19 epidemic. These findings can help the government and health departments better communicate with the public on health and translate public health needs into practice to create targeted measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19.

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Who is Setting Emotions? A Comparative Study on Emotion Diffusion in Social Media among Public, Government and Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.27056 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shuhuan Zhou ◽

Yi Wang

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Chinese Government ◽

The Public ◽

The Media ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact ◽

Time Point

BACKGROUND During the COVID-19 outbreak, social media served as the main platform for information exchange, through which the Chinese government, media and public would spread information. At the same time, a variety of emotions interweave, and the public emotions would also be affected by the government and media. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the types, trends and relationships of emotional diffusion in Chinese social media among the public, the government and the media under the pandemic of COVID-19 (December 30,2019, to July 1,2020) . METHODS In this paper, Python 3.7.0 and its data crawling framework Scrapy 1.5.1 are used to write a web crawler program to search for super topics related to COVID-19 on Sina Weibo platform of different keywords . Then, we used emotional lexicon to analyze the types and trends of the public, government and media emotions on social media. Finally cross-lagged regression was applied to build the relationships of different subjects’ emotions. RESULTS The highlights of our study are threefold: (1) The public, the government and the media mainly diffuse positive emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic in China; (2) Emotional diffusion shows a certain change over time, and negative emotions are obvious in the initial phase of the pandemic, with the development of the pandemic, positive emotions surpass negative emotions and remain stable. (3)The impact among the three main emotions with the period as the time point is weak, while the impact of emotion with the day as the time point is relatively obvious. The emotions of the public and the government impact each other, and the media emotions can guide the public emotions. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study of comparing pubic, government and media emotions on the social media during COVID-19 pandemic in China. The pubic, the government and the media mainly diffuse positive emotions during the pandemic. And the government and the media have better effect on short-term emotional guidance. Therefore, when the pandemic suddenly occurs, the government and the media should intervene in time to solve problems and conflicts and diffuse positive and neutral emotions. In this regard, the government and the media can play important roles through social media in the major outbreaks. At the theoretical level, this paper takes China's epidemic environment and social media as the background to provide one of the explanatory perspectives for the spread of emotions on social media. At the some time, because of this special background, it can provide comparison and reference for the research on internet emotions in other countries.

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Social Media Insights During Health Crisis Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.27116 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Huyen Thi Thanh Tran ◽

Shih-Hao Lu ◽

Ha Thi Thu Tran ◽

Bien Van Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Positive Emotions ◽

Software Tool ◽

Public Attention ◽

Health Crisis ◽

The Public ◽

Crisis Events ◽

Issue Attention ◽

The Government ◽

Interaction Efficiency ◽

People’S Attitudes

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic is still undergoing complicated developments in Vietnam and around the world. The amount of information about the COVID-19 pandemic is enormous, especially in cyberspace, where people can create and share information quickly. This can lead to an "infodemic," which is a challenge every government might face in the fight against pandemics. OBJECTIVE This study aims to understand public attention towards the pandemic (from December 2019 to November 2020) through 7 types of sources: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, blogs, news sites, forums, and e-commerce sites. METHODS We collected and analyzed nearly 38 million pieces of text data from the sources listed above via SocialHeat, a social listening platform developed by YouNet Group. We described not only public attention volume trends, discussion sentiments; top sources, top posts that gained the most public attention, and hot keyword frequency; but also hot keywords’ co-occurrence as visualized by the VOSviewer software tool. RESULTS In this study, we reached 4 main conclusions. First, based on changing discussion trends regarding the subject of COVID-19, 7 periods were identified based on events that can be aggregated into two pandemic waves in Vietnam. Second, community pages on Facebook were the source of the most engagement from the public. However, the sources with the highest average interaction efficiency per article are government sources. Third, people’s attitudes when discussing the pandemic have changed from negative to positive emotions. Fourth, the type of content that attracts the most interactions from people varies from time to time. Besides that, the issue-attention cycle theory occurred not only once but four times during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. CONCLUSIONS Our study shows that online resources can help the government quickly identify public attention to public health messages during times of crisis. We also determined the hot spots that most interested in the public as well as public attention communication patterns, which can help the government get practical information to make more effective policy reactions to help prevent the spread of the pandemic.

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PUBLIC REACTION TO COVID-19 ON TWITTER: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) ◽

10.36713/epra4518 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 349-358

Author(s):

Akif Mustafa ◽

Imaduddin Ansari ◽

Subham Kumar Mohanta ◽

Shalem Balla

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Thematic Analysis ◽

Public Attention ◽

The Public ◽

Emergency Situations ◽

Public Health Emergencies ◽

Health Authorities ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Public Reaction

Emergency situations typically lead to a plethora of public attention on social media platforms like ‘Twitter’. Twitter provides a unique opportunity for public health researchers to analyze untampered information shared during a disease outbreak. Considering the ongoing public health emergency, we conducted a study investigating the public reaction to COVID-19 pandemic around the world using in-depth thematic analysis of Twitter data. A dataset of 212846 tweets was retrieved over a period of seven days (from April 13, 2020, to April 19, 2020) via Twitter Application Programme Interface (API). The following five keywords were used to collect the tweets: “coronavirus”, “covid-19”, “corona”, “covid”, “covid19”. After data filtering and cleaning 6348 tweets were randomly selected for in-depth thematic analysis. Thematic analysis was done manually using a two-level coding guide. A total of six main themes emerged from the analysis: ‘sentiments and feelings’, ‘Information’, ‘General Discussion’, ‘Politics’, ‘Food’, and ‘Sarcasm or humor’. The aforementioned themes were divided into 26 sub-themes. The results of the thematic analysis show that 30.1% of the tweets were regarding ‘sentiments and feelings’, 15.6% were regarding ‘politics’, and 6.5% were related to ‘sarcasm or humor’. The present study is the first study that has analyzed the public response to COVID-19 on Twitter. The study demonstrates that social media platforms (like Twitter) can be used to conduct infodemiological studies related to public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that the results of this study will be of potential interest to policymakers, health authorities, stakeholders, and public health and social science researchers. KEYWORDS:COVID-19, Twitter, Social Media, Coronavirus, Lockdown, Pandemic

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Views on smoking free premise 2007, England; the gains so far

Magna Scientia Advanced Biology and Pharmacy ◽

10.30574/msabp.2021.2.1.0014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 035-045

Author(s):

Lok Mani Giri ◽

Suyasha Koirala ◽

Ahotovi Thomas Ahoto

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Labour Party ◽

White Paper ◽

Public Consultation ◽

Smoking Ban ◽

Public Attention ◽

Public Places ◽

Implementation Phase ◽

The Public ◽

The Government

Smoking is one of the most avoidable cause of death and disability. Smoking not only affects smokers but also nonsmokers who are involuntarily exposed to smoke raising a serious concern for public health, safety, and welfare. Concerns regarding secondhand smoking came to the ground after various medical scientific researches and publications quantified and confirmed the health risk of passive smoking after exposure with it, which drew the public attention. The turning point for the government to introduce a ban of smoking at public and workplaces to protect the right of nonsmokers to enjoy fresh air, came as a 2006 Health Act in UK after it was strongly backed by the recommendation given by SCOTH regarding SHS. Through this policy, the government also supports internationally recognized comprehensive tobacco control standard. UK was first among the FCTC parties to introduce comprehensive smoke free legislation. The major objective of this policy is to limit the preventable epidemic of smoking. This policy is based on the Health Policy Triangle which considers the interaction of all four elements (Content, Context, Process and Actors) to structure policymaking. For agenda setting Kingdon model was used and for implementation phase of the policy Top-down approach was used. The major stakeholders that supported 2006 Health Act were Labour party, The Royal College of physicians (RCP), Action on smoking and Health (ASH) and research and evidence-based news while Tobacco industry and hospital trade was against the Act. The evidence suggested that risks of heart disease in secondhand smoker was double than what was known before. SHS became an agenda when in 2003, around 11,000 adults exposed in home and 617 people exposed in workplace died in UK because of exposure to SHS. People want to quit smoking and wanted help from government to make favorable environment. Following the public consultation white paper was published, Choosing Health: Making Healthy Choices Easier, in November 2004. It set the target that by 2008 all enclosed public places and workplace would be smoke free with some exceptions. Act was supported by labour party and department of Health Economist was of the view that ban would not have any immediate benefits on passive smoker instead it will discourage the young from starting. After publishing the white paper in 2004 there was the consultation period till 2005. There was a voting in parliament and majority of voted for ban on smoking in public places. As a result, Health Act 2006 was introduced on 1st July 2007. Smokers were against the ban, but the purpose of the ban was to focus on protecting health of people from SHS not make smokers quit. Reports disseminated after inspection from local bodies confirmed high levels of compliance with smoke free legislation. The data showed there were 2.4% reduction in hospital admission in a year for heart attack and almost 7000 fewer admission due to childhood asthma. Thus, Smoking ban policies have shown effective public health interventions for the prevention of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory mortality and preserve the health of children.

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Using social media to analyze public psychological status during the recovery period of COVID-19 in China

Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/pubmed/fdaa152 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Fei Jia ◽

Xiaoguang Liu

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Recovery Period ◽

Psychological Status ◽

Development Mode ◽

Public Attention ◽

Public Health Policies ◽

The Public ◽

Epidemic Development ◽

Insight Into

Abstract Background During the outbreak, billions of people were eager to get information about COVID-19 through social media. Social media can not only deliver reliable information to the public but can in turn reflect changes in the public’s psychological status. Insight into the public’s hotspots of concern and mental status through media background tools contributes to the formulation of public health policies and the clarification of epidemic development mode. Methods WeChat is the largest social media in China. Taking the recovery period of COVID-19 in China, for example, we collected WeChat Index data and analyzed the public’s concern about the course of COVID-19 and the restoration of emotional tendency through keywords search. Results With the gradual control of the COVID-19 in China, the public psychological status changes from negative to neutral, accompanied by a weakening of negative emotions and an increase in positive emotions. Every obvious inflection point of improvement in social operation is reflected in the increase of public attention and the relaxation of lifestyle. Conclusions Social media can be used to monitor the public psychological status and the development mode and trend of infection in one country during a pandemic.

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Social Media Use for Health Communication by the CDC in Mainland China: National Survey Study 2009-2020 (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.19470 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Runxi Zeng ◽

Menghan Li

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Health Communication ◽

Mainland China ◽

Popular Science ◽

Survey Study ◽

Eastern Region ◽

The Public ◽

Registration Rate ◽

The Government

BACKGROUND In recent years, public health incidents that pose a serious threat to public life have occurred frequently in China. The use of social media by public health authorities has helped to reduce these threats by increasing effective risk communication between the government and the public. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to reveal how China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses social media to improve three aspects of health communication between the government and the public: adoption, operation, and interaction. METHODS To analyze the 134 CDC government Weibo accounts at the provincial- and prefecture-level administration regions in mainland China, we collected their account data and extracted 1215 Weibo tweets. We also supplemented the data to reveal the overall performance of the CDC’s government Weibo use during the COVID-19 crisis. RESULTS The registration rate of the CDC’s government Weibo accounts increased year by year, and the local authorities registered Weibo accounts before the central government authorities. In total, 29.8% (n=134) of the 450 CDC facilities have registered an account. Among the 134 CDC facilities that have registered Weibo accounts, the registration rate in the eastern region (n=68, 50.7%) was higher than those in the central region (n=30, 22.4%) and the western region (n=36, 26.9%). Nearly 90.0% of these Weibo accounts had official certification, but there were dropouts in the specific operating process. One-third of the accounts have not been updated for more than 1 year, and the number of Weibo followers was polarized, with a maximum and minimum difference of 1 million. The response rate to users’ comments was less than 1%. Emergency information, multimedia content, and original content were more helpful in promoting communication between the government and the public. Such interaction was partially improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC updated the daily epidemic situation and provided popular science information for epidemic prevention and control for the public in a timely manner. CONCLUSIONS China’s CDC is using more social media to popularize daily health information and has taken the first step to improve communication between the government and the public. However, equal dialogue, two-way interactions, and effective communication with the public still need improvement.

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Social Media Use for Health Communication by the CDC in Mainland China: National Survey Study 2009-2020

Journal of Medical Internet Research ◽

10.2196/19470 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (12) ◽

pp. e19470

Author(s):

Runxi Zeng ◽

Menghan Li

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Health Communication ◽

Mainland China ◽

Popular Science ◽

Survey Study ◽

Eastern Region ◽

The Public ◽

Registration Rate ◽

The Government

Background In recent years, public health incidents that pose a serious threat to public life have occurred frequently in China. The use of social media by public health authorities has helped to reduce these threats by increasing effective risk communication between the government and the public. Objective The aim of this study is to reveal how China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses social media to improve three aspects of health communication between the government and the public: adoption, operation, and interaction. Methods To analyze the 134 CDC government Weibo accounts at the provincial- and prefecture-level administration regions in mainland China, we collected their account data and extracted 1215 Weibo tweets. We also supplemented the data to reveal the overall performance of the CDC’s government Weibo use during the COVID-19 crisis. Results The registration rate of the CDC’s government Weibo accounts increased year by year, and the local authorities registered Weibo accounts before the central government authorities. In total, 29.8% (n=134) of the 450 CDC facilities have registered an account. Among the 134 CDC facilities that have registered Weibo accounts, the registration rate in the eastern region (n=68, 50.7%) was higher than those in the central region (n=30, 22.4%) and the western region (n=36, 26.9%). Nearly 90.0% of these Weibo accounts had official certification, but there were dropouts in the specific operating process. One-third of the accounts have not been updated for more than 1 year, and the number of Weibo followers was polarized, with a maximum and minimum difference of 1 million. The response rate to users’ comments was less than 1%. Emergency information, multimedia content, and original content were more helpful in promoting communication between the government and the public. Such interaction was partially improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC updated the daily epidemic situation and provided popular science information for epidemic prevention and control for the public in a timely manner. Conclusions China’s CDC is using more social media to popularize daily health information and has taken the first step to improve communication between the government and the public. However, equal dialogue, two-way interactions, and effective communication with the public still need improvement.

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Contaminação por Enteroparasitas em Areia de Praças e Locais de Recreação do Município de Porto Velho, Rondônia, Amazônia Ocidental, Brasil

REVISTA FIMCA ◽

10.37157/fimca.v5i2.60 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 14-18

Author(s):

Arlindo Gonzaga Branco Junior ◽

Leo Christyan Alves de Lima ◽

Camila Fanzoni de Souza ◽

Andressa Pereira de Carvalho ◽

Priscila Aparecida Marques Lima ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Ascaris Lumbricoides ◽

The Public ◽

Source Of Infection ◽

Plastic Bags ◽

Risk Areas ◽

The Government ◽

Porto Velho

Introdução: As geohelmintíases são classificadas como parasitoses intestinais ou enteroparasitoses, cujo ciclo evolutivo, necessariamente, precisa ocorrer em parte no solo, onde está a fonte de infecção contendo larvas e ovos, e finalmente em um hospedeiro. Objetivos: Neste trabalho procurou-se avaliar a contaminação de areias de praças e locais de recreação de Porto Velho, RO, por helmintos e protozoários. Materiais e Métodos: Foram selecionadas onze praças em diferentes bairros da cidade e coletadas amostras de areia de forma direta em sacos plásticos, encaminhadas e analisadas no laboratório de Parasitologia da Faculdade São Lucas através do método de Hoffman, Pons e Janer. Resultados: Os resultados foram positivos para parasitas em cinco (45,5%) das praças analisadas, sendo identificados os parasitos Entamoeba Coli (100%), larvas de Ancylostoma spp foram encontradas em três praças (60%) e duas praças apresentaram-se contaminadas por ovos de Ascaris lumbricoides (40%). Conclusão: Conclui-se que nas areias pesquisadas existem parasitos que ameaçam a saúde pública nas amostras analisadas e com isso a necessidades de medidas mitigatórias dos riscos nas áreas estudadas. ABSTRACTIntroduction: The geohelminthiases are classified as intestinal parasitoses or enteroparasitoses, whose evolutionary cycle necessarily needs to occur partly in the soil, where it is the source of infection containing larvae and eggs, and finally in a host. Objectives: To evaluate the contamination of the sand of squares and places of recreation of Porto Velho, RO, by helminths and protozoa. Materials and Methods: Eleven squares were selected in different districts and collected samples of sand directly in plastic bags. The samples were sent and analyzed at College São Lucas Parasitology Laboratory by Hoffman, Pons and Janer methodology. Results: The result were:” positive for parasites in five (45,5%) analyzed squares, the parasites identified in this research were Entamoeba Coli (100%), Ancylostoma spp in three squares (60%) and two squares contaminated by eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides (40%). Conclusion: It is concluded that in the sands surveyed, there were parasites that can threaten the public health in the analyzed samples and the government need to do the necessary interventions in those risk areas.

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