Gong, Xue Han, Yangyang Hou, Mengchi Guo, Rui
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global public health event, attracting worldwide attention. As a tool to monitor public awareness, internet search engines have been widely used in public health emergencies. Objective This study aims to use online search data (Baidu Index) to monitor the public’s attention and verify internet search en...
Herbert, Jeremy Horsham, Caitlin Ford, Helen Wall, Alexander Hacker, Elke
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to remove germs, prevent the spread of infectious pathogens, and avoid getting sick. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health authorities have been advocating good hand hygiene practices. Objective The primary aim of this study is to field test a prototype smart handwashing station deployed...
Saurabh, Suman Verma, Mahendra Kumar Gautam, Vaishali Kumar, Nitesh Goel, Akhil Dhanesh Gupta, Manoj Kumar Bhardwaj, Pankaj Misra, Sanjeev
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background On March 9, 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in the northwestern part of India. Understanding the epidemiology of COVID-19 at a local level is becoming increasingly important to guide measures to control the pandemic. Objective The aim of this study was to estimate the serial interval and basic reproducti...
Dubey, Akash Dutt
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background With increasing numbers of patients with COVID-19 globally, China and the World Health Organization have been blamed by some for the spread of this disease. Consequently, instances of racism and hateful acts have been reported around the world. When US President Donald Trump used the term “Chinese Virus,” this issue gained momentum, and ...
McCausland, Kahlia Maycock, Bruce Leaver, Tama Wolf, Katharina Freeman, Becky Jancey, Jonine
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background As the majority of Twitter content is publicly available, the platform has become a rich data source for public health surveillance, providing insights into emergent phenomena, such as vaping. Although there is a growing body of literature that has examined the content of vaping-related tweets, less is known about the people who generate...
Ahmed, Kamran Bukhari, Muhammad Arish Mlanda, Tamayi Kimenyi, Jean Paul Wallace, Polly Okot Lukoya, Charles Hamblion, Esther L Impouma, Benido
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges to the systematic and timely sharing of COVID-19 field data collection and management. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with health partners on the rollout and implementation of a robust electronic field data collection platform. The delay in the deployment and roll...
Ali, Shahmir H Foreman, Joshua Tozan, Yesim Capasso, Ariadna Jones, Abbey M DiClemente, Ralph J
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a heightened need to understand health information seeking behaviors to address disparities in knowledge and beliefs about the crisis. Objective This study assessed sociodemographic predictors of the use and trust of different COVID-19 information sources, as well as the association between informat...
Hassani, Asma Khan, Gulfaraz
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of society, from health and economics to socialization and travel. The level and extent of this impact are unprecedented. Although the cause of COVID-19 was quickly identified to be a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the world was poorly prepared for preventing its spread. One important pillar of prepared...
van Draanen, Jenna Tao, HaoDong Gupta, Saksham Liu, Sam
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background Infodemiology is an emerging field of research that utilizes user-generated health-related content, such as that found in social media, to help improve public health. Twitter has become an important venue for studying emerging patterns in health issues such as substance use because it can reflect trends in real-time and display messages ...
Olawore, Oluwasolape Astatke, Hibist Lillie, Tiffany Persaud, Navindra Lyons, Carrie Kamali, Didier Wilcher, Rose Baral, Stefan
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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background In the context of the mostly generalized HIV epidemic in Côte d’Ivoire, key populations bear a higher burden of HIV than that borne by the general reproductive-aged population. Mathematical models have demonstrated the significant potential impact and cost-effectiveness of improving the coverage of HIV prevention and treatment services f...
