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Evolution of a Search: The Use of Dynamic Twitter Searches During Superstorm Sandy
Conclusion The most important lesson learned from Superstorm Sandy was the need for a dynamic and flexible monitoring process and strategy to understand and respond quickly to health needs in the areas impacted by Superstorm Sandy. Search strategies should change as frequently as the unfolding event. The inability to adapt to a changing situation ensures stale and stagnant terminology and search results. Twitter lists and Boolean searches should be used together to maximize situational awareness. The most important information comes from the impacted population, whether news, local government or local citizens. These are t...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - September 26, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sara Harris Smith Source Type: research

Analysis of Cognition, Protection, Psychological, and Job-search Intentions Among Medical and Nonmedical College Students During COVID-19 Epidemic
CONCLUSIONS: The news about COVID-19 piqued the interest of medical students. Nonmedical students had stronger protective behavior than medical students. The COVID-19 outbreak had a significant influence on medical students' lives, studies, and moods. In addition, COVID-19 had a greater impact on the job-search intentions of medical students.PMID:36525353
Source: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine - December 16, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Xuan Long Kai Sun Kai Wang Lishuai Shi Limin Cao Tingting Wen Zhonghua Zhou Zhihua Guo Yue Shi Hong Yu Zhen Yu Xiaolian Song Lijin Feng Aihong Mei Source Type: research

Performance Assessment of Communicable Disease Surveillance in Disasters: A Systematic Review
Conclusion Performance assessment is an integral component of the management of all organizations and the lack of performance assessment is considered a significant sign of weakness in an organization. Therefore, the lack of accepted mechanisms for the assessment of the performance of CDS systems in response to disasters is an important weakness. Although some studies attempted to assess surveillance systems, the results of this systematic literature review suggest that there is no clear and comprehensive assessment framework in place. While the CDC framework has been used in some studies, it is not specific for SS in resp...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - February 24, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: javad Source Type: research

Application of Behavioral Theories to Disaster and Emergency Health Preparedness: A Systematic Review
CONCLUSIONS Based on the articles archived and selected, behavioral theories and models are applied to disasters and emergencies preparedness more commonly in developed countries (USA and Europe). In Asia, where the annual number of disasters events and victims exceed those in other continents, only 3 studies applying behavioral theories and models to disasters and emergencies were identifies. This identified a need for additional research to target the use of behavioral change theories in the Asian countries that bear the brunt of disasters and their consequences. This does not, however, mean that these theories have not ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - July 1, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Luche Tadesse Ejeta Source Type: research

CDC Reports Flu Widespread, Google Search Trends Alarming
According to new surveillance statistics released on Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), forty-seven states in the U.S. are now reporting widespread influenza activity [1]. The virus, which first appeared in the Southeast, has reached epidemic levels. Forty-seven states have reported widespread geographic influenza activity (i.e. incidence of flu) for the week between December 30, 2012 and January 5, 2013, and twenty-four states and New York City have reported high influenza-like illness (ILI) activity (i.e. the proportion of outpatient visits to healthcare providers for influenza-like illne...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 15, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs

Estimating Influenza Outbreaks Using Both Search Engine Query Data and Social Media Data in South Korea
Conclusions: These results demonstrate the feasibility of using search queries to enhance influenza surveillance in South Korea. In addition, an approach for query selection using social media data seems ideal for supporting influenza surveillance based on search query data.
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - July 3, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Hyekyung WooYoungtae ChoEunyoung ShimJong-Koo LeeChang-Gun LeeSeong Hwan Kim Source Type: research

The Internet search engines as an additional tool in public health research in the context of disease outbreaks
Andrey Valerievich Batrimenko, Svetlana Denisova, Dmitrii Lisovskii, Sergey Orlov, Sergey Soshnikov International Journal of Health Governance, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The study aims to help epidemiologists identify new patterns and trends in spreading infections on the example of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using data from search engines. The study identified the types of thematic search of Russian Internet users and queries that have a mathematically confirmed correlation with public health indicators: mortality and morbidity from COVID-19. The study a...
Source: International Journal of Health Governance - January 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Andrey Valerievich Batrimenko Svetlana Denisova Dmitrii Lisovskii Sergey Orlov Sergey Soshnikov Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 3395: Trends in Online Search Activity and the Correlation with Daily New Cases of Monkeypox among 102 Countries or Territories
Min Liu Jue Liu Research assessing the trend in online search activity on monkeypox (mpox) and the correlation with the mpox epidemic at the global and national level is scarce. The trend of online search activity and the time-lag correlations between it and daily new mpox cases were estimated by using segmented interrupted time-series analysis and Spearman correlation coefficient (rs), respectively. We found that after the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the proportion of countries or territories with increasing changes in online search activity was lowest in Africa (8.16%,...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - February 15, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Min Du Chenyuan Qin Wenxin Yan Qiao Liu Yaping Wang Lin Zhu Wannian Liang Min Liu Jue Liu Tags: Article Source Type: research

The roles and challenges of the primary health care systems in epidemic management: a scoping review
CONCLUSIONS: Based on the results of the present study, there is a need for further studies to formulate and theorize the specific roles of PHC in managing infectious disease epidemics. The results of this study can be utilized by researchers and officials to inform their efforts in addressing this purpose.PMID:37705282 | DOI:10.1017/S1463423623000452
Source: Primary Care - September 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Elham Shami Kamal Gholipour Deniz Naghibi Saber Azami-Aghdash Source Type: research

Loss of smell and taste: a new marker of COVID-19? Tracking reduced sense of smell during the coronavirus pandemic using search trends.
CONCLUSIONS: We feel that Google search trends relating to loss of smell can be utilized to identify potential Covid-19 outbreaks on a national and regional basis. PMID: 32673122 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy - July 18, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther Source Type: research