Strategi Peningkatkan Semangat dan Kesadaran Masyarakat Dalam Menerapkan Protokol Kesehatan Pandemi Covid-19

ABSTRAK Pandemi Covid-19 belum berakhir, banyak masyarakat yang sudah mulai lelah dalam menghadapi situasi pandemi ini. Gaya hidup sehat pun mulai menurun. Kesadaran tanggung jawab antara keluarga baik orang tua dan anak juga semakin menurun. Banyak warga yang mengeluhkan kondisi pandemi yang tak kunjung selesai. Sehingga diperlukan strategi upaya untuk meningkatkan semangat dan juga kesadaran masyarakat di Indonesia khususnya di Desa Beji kecamatan Boyolangu-Tulungagung, beberapa upaya diantaranya melakukan sosilaisasi edukasi tentang pengenalan pandemi Covid-19 serta penerapan protokol kesehatan, sosialisasi peran tenaga kesehatan dan pemeriksaan Covid-19, strategi aktivitas pengantar orang tua dan anak. Hasil dari kegiatan menunjukkan adanya peningkatan pengetahuan sebesar 87%, antusias pelaksanaan protokol kesehatan 55%, dan pelaksanaan kartu aktivitas 2%. Pentingnya dari hasil kegiatan ini diharapkannya dapat memacu motivasi masyarakat agar terus melaksanakan protokol kesehatan dan melakukan aktivitas positif di masa Pandemi. Kata kunci : COVID-19, Protokol Kesehatan, Aktivitas Pandemi ABSTRACTThe Covid-19 pandemic is not over yet, many people are getting tired of dealing with this pandemic situation. Healthy lifestyles began to decline. Awareness of responsibility between families, both parents and children, is also decreasing. Many residents have complained about the ongoing pandemic. So that an effort strategy is needed to increase the enthusiasm and awareness of the people in Indonesia, especially in Beji Village, Boyolangu-Tulungagung sub-district, several efforts including conducting outreach education about the introduction of the Covid-19 pandemic and the application of health protocols, socialization of the role of health workers and Covid-19 checks, strategies parent and child introductory activities. The results of the activity showed an increase in knowledge by 87%, application of health protocol by 55%, and effectivity of pandemic card about 2%. The importance of the results of this activity is expected to spur people's motivation to continue to implement health protocols and carry out positive activities during the Pandemic. Keywords: COVID-19, Health Protocols, Pandemic Activities

Quantifying COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy during early vaccination rollout in Canada

Background: Understanding vaccination hesitancy during early vaccination rollout in Canada can help the government's vaccination efforts in education and outreach, which may help eventually achieving herd immunity. This study uses an online survey to assess vaccination hesitancy in population subgroups in Canada. Method: Panel members from the nationally representative Angus Reid Forum were randomly invited to complete an online survey on their experiencing with COVID-19 symptoms and testing, as well as intention to vaccination against COVID-19. Respondents were asked "when a vaccine against the coronavirus becomes available to you, will you get vaccinated or not?" Vaccination hesitancy was defined as choosing "No - I will not get a coronavirus vaccination" as a response. Results: 14,621 panel members (46% male and 53% female) completed the survey. Although the respondents overrepresent age 60+ and higher levels of education, other demographics, the prevalences of smoking, obesity, diabetes and hypertension were comparable to the Canadian national census and health surveys. COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy is relatively low overall (9%). Being a resident of Alberta (predicted probability = 15%), aged 40-59 (OR = 0.87, 0.78-0.97, predicted probability = 12%), identifying as a visible minority (OR = 0.56, 0.37-0.84, predicted probability = 15%), having some college level education or lower (predicted probability = 14%), or living in households of at least 5 are related to greater vaccination hesitancy (OR = 0.82, 0.76-0.88, predicted probability = 13%). Conclusion: Our study enhances the understanding of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and identifies key population groups with higher vaccination hesitancy. As the Canadian COVID-19 vaccination effort continues, policymakers may focus outreach, education, and other efforts on these groups, which also represent groups with higher risks for contracting and dying from COVID-19. Furthermore, Canada would need to vaccinate virtually the entire population to reach herd immunity due to its relatively low infection level, and a high vaccination hesitancy would be a major hurdle to achieving that.

The Road to Recovery #1: Introduction

This first publication in the Road to Recovery series provides a brief introduction to some core concerns and considerations for Extension professionals as they adapt their outreach, education, and evaluation efforts during a pandemic and recovery. This new 3-page publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication also includes an overview of the subsequent articles in the Road to Recovery series. Written by Cody Gusto, Colby Silvert, and John Diaz.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc379

Technology as the Key to Women’s Empowerment: A Scoping Review

Background: With women’s empowerment and information and communication technologies (ICTs) being the subject of global discussions for many decades, there is a need for a clearer and deeper understanding of existing gender gaps. Despite these prolonged discussions, there remains limited in-depth understanding of the use of ICTs for women’s empowerment. ICTs having made communication and networking a possibility between and among people on a global scale, a digital divide has emerged. Research Objectives: To determine how the concept of empowerment is defined, utilized, and measured in research studies; explore existing evidence regarding the use of ICTs as interventions towards achieving women’s empowerment; and explore the gaps in knowledge and research on this topic from an individual, community, and global perspectives. Methods: We conducted a scoping review using the Arksey and O’Malley methodology. The search identified papers from ten databases, including Scopus, Embase, ABI Inform, Soc Index, Sociological Abstracts, Gender Studies, Springer Link, PsychInfo, Science Direct, and Academic Search Complete over the period of 2012-2018. Search criteria included articles that focused on women’s empowerment and utilized technologies as interventions. Out of a total of 4481 articles that were initially identified, 51were included in the final review. Results: Technology played a variety of roles in supporting the development of women’s capacities and resources. Results revealed the use of ICT interventions in the following areas: outreach, education, lifestyle, prevention, health challenges, perceptions of barriers. However, despite the positive use of technology to support women in their daily lives, there was a lack of consensus regarding the definition and use of the term empowerment. The concept of empowerment was also inconsistently and poorly measured among individual studies which led to issues in measuring whether or not empowerment was achieved. Conclusion: This scoping review provides a comprehensive review of current and emerging efforts to use ICTs to empower women, as well as highlighting opportunities for collaborative efforts between researchers, program implementers and policy makers to address the persistent gender disparities with respect to ICTs.

Browser-based visualization framework Tracer for Outreach & Education

Education & outreach is an important part of HEP experiments. With outreach & education, experiments can have an impact on the public, students and their teachers, as well as policymakers and the media. The tools and methods for visualization enable to represent the detectors’ facilities, explaining their purpose, functionalities, development histories, and participant institutes. In addition, they make it possible to visualize different physical events together with important parameters and plots for physics analyses. 3D visualization and advanced VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) extensions are the keys for successful outreach & education. This paper describes requirements and methods for the creation of browser-based visualization applications for outreach & education. The visualization framework TRACER is considered as a case study.