scholarly journals Public Health Education in Medical Schools – The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veena Rodrigues ◽  
Eleanor Hothersall ◽  
Marc Davies

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2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. 138-140
Author(s):  
Musthafa Mohamed Essa ◽  
Kabaly P. Subramanian ◽  
Hemanatha P. Jayasuriya

AbstractThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought upon extraordinary challenges on all possible societal fronts, be it public health, education, economy, law and order, among others. In this article, we discuss the impact of COVID-19 on education from an academician’s perspective. Other alternative measures are also discussed to have a smooth education.


Author(s):  
Mingwei Sun ◽  
Liuna Yang ◽  
Wanna Chen ◽  
Hao Luo ◽  
Kaiqiao Zheng ◽  
...  

Abstract Background To investigate the current use status of official WeChat accounts for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in public health education and relevant factors that can impact the effectiveness of message delivery. Methods A retrospective survey was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of official WeChat accounts. About 531 official WeChat accounts and 50 939 articles were analyzed using a cluster sampling survey design. The Kruskal–Wallis test and multivariate logistic regression were used to explore factors associated with the usefulness of the number of views and “Likes” of the articles. Results The study identified a total of 531 public WeChat accounts, including 19 province-level accounts, 179 municipal-level accounts and 333 county-level accounts. In the univariable analysis, the administrative level of the account, article order, time segment, article originality and thematic category were associated with the number of views and “Likes.” Province-level accounts, first articles, the 5:00–6:00 time segment, original articles and theme 3 (emergencies) had higher numbers of views and “Likes” than the others (P < 0.05). Conclusions Promoting health education through Official WeChat account is an effective, sustainable and feasible strategy. Potential indicators of the impact of public health education suggest that administrators should effectively use official WeChat accounts for public health education.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Gillam ◽  
Veena Rodrigues ◽  
Puja Myles

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-221
Author(s):  
Lindsay P. Galway ◽  
Erin Cameron

The flipped classroom approach, used for many years in the humanities and the basic sciences, is becoming increasingly popular in public health education. This article describes the implementation and evaluation of a master’s-level Environmental and Occupational Health course, a required course in a Master of Public Health program at a mid-sized Canadian university. The course was designed using a flipped classroom approach and delivered online using a learning management system and interactive web-conferencing technology. Using a pre- and postsurvey design, we assessed improvements in student’s self-reported knowledge and skills, student learning experiences in the course, and the impact of specific course components on critical thinking and student engagement. Our results suggest that this approach enabled the achievement of course learning outcomes and provided positive learning experiences overall. Additionally, we find that the course promoted critical thinking and enabled student engagement in the context of online education for this small group of graduate-level public health students. We conclude by discussing key lessons learned for providing optimal learning experiences and outcomes in online graduate-level public health education.


2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-138
Author(s):  
Aissata A. B. Sy ◽  
Mamadou L. Diagne ◽  
Ibrahima Mbaye ◽  
Ousmane Seydi

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
KIMBERLY A. DAUTEL ◽  
EPHRAIM O. AGYINGI

Disease awareness that informs the public about the severity and transmission pathways of infectious diseases such as Ebola is key to curtailing an outbreak. Public health education when available can limit the intensity and duration of an Ebola outbreak in any community if there is compliance. It is important that all population groups be informed about the methods in which Ebola is transmitted to control the disease when there is an outbreak. In this paper, we study the impact of public health education that leads to behavioral changes on the dynamics of Ebola spread. The model is formulated as a system of ordinary differential equations and incorporates direct transmission from infectious, hospitalized, and deceased individuals with Ebola. We establish the existence of a disease free equilibrium and an endemic equilibrium, and investigate them for local and global stability. Model predictions show that a more informed community results in fewer cases, and thus limits the impact of an Ebola outbreak. Further, the model also predicts subsequent outbreak waves within a community in the absence of complete eradication. Lastly, the model successfully captures the dynamics of the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the 2018–2020 Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola outbreak.


2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-463
Author(s):  
Nicole C. Burns ◽  
Amber Watts ◽  
Jaime Perales ◽  
Robert Neal Montgomery ◽  
Jill K. Morris ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-260
Author(s):  
Agatha Abokwara ◽  
Chinwendu Emilian Madubueze

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease affecting communities surrounded by water bodies where fishing activities take place or people go to swim, wash and cultivate crops. It poses a great risk to the health and economic life of inhabitants of the area. This study was carried out to evaluate the impact of public health education and snail control measures on the incidence of schistosomiasis. A model was developed with attention given to the snail and human populations that are the hosts of the cercariae and miracidia respectively. The existence and stability of disease-free and endemic equilibrium states were established. The disease-free and endemic equilibrium states were shown to be locally asymptotically stable whenever the basic reproduction number was less than unity. Numerical simulations of the model were carried out to evaluate the impact of interventions (public health education and snail control measures) on schistosomiasis transmission. It was observed that the implementation of low coverage snail control with highly efficacious molluscicide and massive public health education will make the basic reproduction number smaller than unity, which implies the eradication of schistosomiasis in the population.


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