scholarly journals UniCoVac Position Paper: Considerations for University Campus-Based Programmes for COVID-19 and Other Infectious Disease Vaccines

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher D Bayliss ◽  
Lieve Gies ◽  
Manish Pareek
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Secure Access ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Health Experts

This position paper sets out the rationale, logistics and limitations for delivery of COVID-19, MMR and meningitis vaccines to university students. Key aspects considered are ascertainment of vaccine status and campus-based delivery of vaccines. The approaches described in this position paper require an inter-disciplinary approach. There will be a requirement for data analysts to enable personalised, secure access to vaccination records, for social media experts and sociologists to design appropriate pathways and literature for disseminating information and for public health experts to oversee literature outputs and delivery of campus-based immunisation programmes. Contributions from vaccinologists, economists and modellers will also be required for monitoring and assessing the utility of implemented recommendations.

scholarly journals Penerapan Payment Gateway pada Aplikasi Marketplace Waroeng Mahasiswa Menggunakan Midtrans

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Al Fian ◽  
Petrus Sokibi ◽  
Lena Magdalena
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Transaction Process ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Payment Gateway

Catur Insan Cendekia University is one of the universities in Cirebon City which is based on technology and management. As an educational institution that has a technopreneur campus slogan, many Catur Insan Cendekia University students have implemented entrepreneurship courses and have developed into new entrepreneurial owners scattered on various social media. However, due to limited space and marketing reach in the campus area, many academicians do not see the product / service offerings made by Catur Insan Cendekia University students. So a work program called Waroeng Mahasiswa was launched by BKM CIC with the aim of being a space for students to market their products / services in the Catur Insan Cendekia University campus area. The Waroeng Mahasiswa work program will be developed into a web-based marketplace application made using the PHP programming language. This marketplace application will also be equipped with an online payment system that is integrated with Midtrans as a payment gateway service provider to make the transaction process faster, easier and more practical.

scholarly journals Showers, Sweating and Suing: Legionnaires’ Disease and ‘New’ Infections in Britain, 1977–90

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. MacFarlane ◽  
Michael Worboys
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Campylobacter Jejuni ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Hantaan Virus ◽  
Environmental Threat ◽  
Legionnaires Disease ◽  
Spending Cuts ◽  
Health Experts

AbstractLegionnaires’ disease is now routinely discussed as an ‘emerging infectious disease’ (EID) and is said to be one of the earliest such diseases to be recognised. It first appeared in 1976 and its cause was identified in 1977, the same year that Ebola fever, Hantaan virus and Campylobacter jejuni arrived. The designation of Legionnaires’ disease as an EID was retrospective; it was not and could not be otherwise as the category only gained currency in the early 1990s. In this article we reflect on the changing medical understanding and social profile of Legionnaires’ disease in the decade or so from its recognition to the creation of EIDs, especially its ambivalent position between public health and clinical medicine. However, we question any simple opposition, between public health experts who approached Legionnaires’ disease as a new and worrying environmental threat that could be prevented, and clinicians who saw it as another cause of pneumonia that could be managed by improved diagnosis and treatment. We argue that in the British context of public spending cuts and the reform of public health, the category of ‘new’ diseases, in which Legionnaires’ disease was central, was mobilised ahead of the EID lobby of the early 1990s, by interested groups in medicine to defend infectious diseases services.

scholarly journals A System to Predict an Outbreak of a Disease using Twitter Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 2623-2631
Author(s):  
Sneha M. Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
The People ◽  
Epidemic Diseases ◽  
Health Experts

Social media (Twitter) data can be analyzed by the system to provide data regarding the diseases by checking the location from the tweets retrieved from Twitter. This will be done by searching for the disease in the system. Using tweets most used hash tag is retrieved to find out which disease is discussed to spread the awareness and it is helpful to prevent spreading of communicable Disease. Detecting the diseases that are widely spread in the society and predicting future stages of the diseases has become very important in modern life. The System is to make people aware of the Epidemic diseases in a particular location. The people can also search for other non-communicable diseases to check the tweets helpful to them in providing information regarding the disease. As many people are using social media to share different information we are utilizing this fact to make our system more efficient and reliable by taking the data from Twitter and analyzing various factors like sentiments, location. This can be utilized by anyone who needs information regarding the disease and can be utilized to support clinical providers, public health experts, social scientists, healthcare providers and Government.

Tracking Public Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccination on Tweets in Canada: Using Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeju Jang ◽  
Emily Rempel ◽  
Ian Roe ◽  
Giuseppe Carenini ◽  
Naveed Zafar Janjua
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Negative Sentiment ◽  
Health Experts

BACKGROUND The development and approval of COVID-19 vaccines have generated optimism for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and a return to normalcy. However, vaccine hesitancy, often fueled by misinformation poses a major barrier to achieving herd immunity. OBJECTIVE We aim to investigate Twitter users’ attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination in Canada after vaccine rollout. METHODS We applied a weakly-supervised aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) technique on COVID-19 vaccination-related tweets in Canada. Automatically-generated aspect and opinion terms were manually corrected by public health experts to ensure the accuracy of the terms and make them more domain-specific. Then, based on these manually corrected terms, the system inferred sentiments toward the aspects. We observed sentiments toward key aspects related to COVID-19 vaccination, and investigated how sentiment toward “vaccination” changed over time. In addition, we analyzed the most retweeted/liked tweets by observing most frequent nouns and sentiments toward key aspects. RESULTS After training tweets using an ABSA system, we obtained 108 aspect terms (e.g., “immunity” and “pfizer”) and 6,793 opinion terms (e.g., “trustworthy” for the positive sentiment and “jeopardize” for the negative sentiment). While manually verifying/editing these terms, our public health experts selected 20 key aspects related to COVID-19 vaccination for more analysis. The results showed that the top-ranked automatically-extracted aspects include “risk”, “delay”, and “hope”. The sentiment analysis results for the 20 key aspects revealed negative sentiments related to “vaccine distribution”, “side effects”, “allergy”, “reactions” and “anti-vaxxer”, and positive sentiments related to “vaccine campaign”, “vaccine candidates”, and “immune response”. All these results indicate that the Twitter users express concerns about the safety of vaccines, but still consider vaccines as the option to end the pandemic. In addition, compared to the sentiment of all the tweets, the most retweeted/liked tweets showed more positive sentiment overall, especially about vaccination itself. When looking more closely, the most retweeted/liked tweets showed an interesting dichotomy in Twitter users, i.e., the “anti-vaxxer” population who used a negative sentiment as a means to discourage vaccination and the “Covid Zero” population who used negative sentiments to encourage vaccinations while critiquing the public health response. CONCLUSIONS This study is the first to examine public sentiments toward COVID-19 vaccination on tweets over an extended period of time in Canada. Our findings could inform public health agencies to design and implement interventions to promote vaccination, and get closer to the goal of ending the pandemic.

scholarly journals 190. Which antibiotic are you? Evaluation of a global antibiotic awareness personality quiz

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S101-S101
Author(s):  
Bradley J Langford ◽  
Maryrose R Laguio-Vila
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Public Health Campaign ◽  
Antibiotic Overuse ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Improving understanding of the impact of antibiotic overuse is a key component of the global action plan to address antibiotic resistance. Play is an underutilized opportunity to engage adults in learning about antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use in mitigating this public health threat. Our objective was to evaluate the reach of a web-based antibiotic awareness personality quiz. Figure 1. Antibiotic Personality Quiz Participants Methods A personality quiz (http://www.tiny.cc/antibioticquiz) was developed using an online platform (Tryinteract.com). The quiz included a series of short personality-based questions. Once complete, based on the responses provided, the respondent was automatically assigned an antibiotic that best matched their personality. This result was accompanied by key teaching points about the assigned antibiotic, a statement about the importance of appropriate antibiotic use and links to find more information. The quiz was launched in November 2017 to coincide with World Antibiotic Awareness Week and disseminated via social media. It was updated iteratively each year. We evaluated usage statistics from November 7 2017 to June 7 2020. Results During the 31-month evaluation period, there were 287,868 views of the quiz, and it was completed 207,148 times. The quiz was shared extensively on social media (Facebook 1667 shares, Twitter 1390 clicks). From a subset of 37,825 recent participants who were asked about their profession, most identified as non-infectious diseases healthcare professionals (n= 18,235, 48.2%), followed by infectious disease healthcare professionals (n=8,119, 21.8%), and healthcare students (n=6,986, 18.5%) (Figure 1). Respondents were well-represented globally, including US, Canada, Spain, France, India, United Kingdom, and Indonesia. Conclusion This exploratory analysis suggests incorporation of play into social media campaigns may augment the size of the receiving audience. An antibiotic awareness personality quiz engaged a high volume and broad range of non-infectious disease experts in learning more about antibiotic resistance. Antimicrobial stewards and public health campaign leaders should incorporate play into awareness opportunities and evaluate their impact. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures

scholarly journals Ebola response missions: To go or not to go? Cross-sectional study on the motivation of European public health experts, December 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
U Rexroth ◽  
M Diercke ◽  
E Peron ◽  
C Winter ◽  
M an der Heiden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Outbreak Response ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
European Public ◽  
Health Experts

We surveyed European infectious disease epidemiologists and microbiologists about their decisions to apply for Ebola response missions. Of 368 respondents, 49 (15%) had applied. Applicants did not differ from non-applicants in terms of age, sex or profession but had more training in field epidemiology and more international experience. Common concerns included lack of support from families and employers. Clearer terms of reference and support from employers could motivate application and support outbreak response in West Africa.

scholarly journals Knowledge and perceptions of synthetic cannabinoids among university students in Jordan

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0253632
Author(s):  
Mahmoud M. AbuAlSamen ◽  
Tamam El-Elimat ◽  
Basima A. Almomani ◽  
Nour A. Al-Sawalha
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Synthetic Cannabinoids ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Ethical Perceptions ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

The emergence of blends of synthetic cannabinoids (SC) is an alarming public health concern in Jordan and worldwide. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and perceptions of university students of SC. A cross-sectional study employing a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 1,789 university students in Jordan. The questionnaire measured the knowledge and perceptions of students of SC. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were used to investigate the potential predictors of good knowledge of SC. Perceptions of students regarding SC use, prevalence and availability were investigated using principal component analysis. Self-reported familiarity with SC was high (92.5%), while good knowledge was only demonstrated by (33.6%) of students. Predictors of good knowledge included being a smoker (aOR = 1.369, 95% Cl = 11.041–1.871, p = .026), an alcohol user (aOR = 2.134, 95% CI = 1.362–3.346, p = .001), being informed by traditional media (aOR = 1.367, 95% CI = 11.113–1.679, p = .003), social media (aOR = 1.241, 95% CI = 1.161–1.403, p = .021) and self-familiarity with SC (aOR = 2.499, 95% CI = 1.518–4.114, p < .0001). Students perceived SC use to be prevalent and ethically unacceptable, for religious, social, and legal reasons. There were significant differences in the ethical perceptions against the use of SC detected by gender (p < .0001), smoking (p < .0001) or alcohol use (p = .001), and being informed by both traditional media (p-.001) and social media (p = .001), but there were no differences by the level of knowledge (p = .057). Those of good knowledge and those of low knowledge did not differ on their ethical perceptions of using SC. This study showed that there was a low level of knowledge regarding SC among university students in Jordan, which may play a role in the use of SC in the country. Herein, many opportunities exist for public health education to raise awareness against SC use.

Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Maßnahmen zur Suchtprävention der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Michaela Goecke
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Junge Erwachsene ◽  
Bundeszentrale Für Gesundheitliche Aufklärung

Zusammenfassung. Abstract: Hintergrund: Die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) ist als Fachbehörde unter anderem für die Umsetzung nationaler Programme zur Suchtprävention zuständig. Die jährlichen Arbeitsprogramme werden mit dem Bundesministerium für Gesundheit abgestimmt und sehen aktuell vor dem Hintergrund der Public-Health-Relevanz Schwerpunkte in der Prävention der legalen Substanzen Tabak und Alkohol vor. Vorrangige Zielgruppen sind Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene, da sich bei ihnen riskante Konsummuster entwickeln und festigen können. Die Präventionsprogramme der BZgA umfassen schulische Angebote, Webportale, Social Media und Printmedien wie Informationsbroschüren. Aktuelle Situation: Die Corona-Pandemie hat Einfluss genommen auf die Suchtprävention der BZgA. Zu nennen ist die thematische Verzahnung im Kontext von Corona und ein veränderter inhaltlicher Beratungsbedarf – telefonisch und online. Auch die durch die Corona-Pandemie bedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen während des „Lockdowns“ sowie die neuen Rahmenbedingungen für ein persönliches Miteinander haben die Suchtprävention verändert. Interaktive Präventionsangebote in Schulen wurden ebenso wie die Unterstützung von Mitmachaktionen in Sportvereinen oder die Durchführung von Peer-Programmen ausgesetzt. Dafür rückte die Nutzung digitaler Möglichkeiten sowohl bei der Umsetzung von suchtpräventiven Angeboten als auch in der Kooperation und Vernetzung mit den Ländern in einen neuen Fokus. Die Corona-Krise kann perspektivisch auch eine Chance für mehr Digitalisierung in der Suchtprävention werden.

Web-Based Financial Reporting: An Interpretative Model for Corporate Communications on Social Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Paola Ramassa ◽  
Costanza Di Fabio
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Corporate Communications ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Financial Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Interpretative Model

This paper aims at contributing to financial reporting literature by proposing a conceptual interpretative model to analyse the corporate use of social media for financial communication purposes. In this perspective, the FIRE model provides a framework to study social media shifting the focus on the distinctive features that might enhance web investor relations. The model highlights these features through four building blocks: (i) firm identity (F); (ii) information posting (I); (iii) reputation (R); and (iv) exchange and diffusion (E). They represent key aspects to explore corporate communication activities and might offer a framework to interpret to what degree corporate web financial reporting exploits the potential of social media. Accordingly, the paper proposes metrics based on this model aimed at capturing the interactivity of corporate communications via social media, with a particular focus on web financial reporting. It tries to show the potential of this model by illustrating an exploratory empirical analysis investigating to what extent companies use social media for financial reporting purposes and whether firms are taking advantage of Twitter distinctive features of interaction and diffusion.

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