Cole, Jennifer Ezziane, Saphia Watkins, Chris
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JMIR public health and surveillance
During health emergencies, the people within affected communities ask many questions at a time when professional medics and health agencies are overstretched and struggling to cope. Our previous research has shown that, during the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola crisis, volunteer-moderated online discussion forums were able to provide peer-to-peer reli...
Hansen, Arne Herrmann, Maximilian Ehlers, Jan P Mondritzki, Thomas Hensel, Kai Oliver Truebel, Hubert Boehme, Philip
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Health care systems worldwide are struggling to keep rising costs at bay with only modest outcome improvement among many diseases. Digitization with technologies like Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning algorithms might address this. Although digital technologies have been successfully applied in clinical studies the effect on the overall h...
Cooper, Hannah Luke Fenimore Crawford, Natalie D Haardörfer, Regine Prood, Nadya Jones-Harrell, Carla Ibragimov, Umedjon Ballard, April M Young, April M
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Epicenters of harmful drug use are expanding to US rural areas, with rural young adults bearing a disproportionate burden. A large body of work suggests that place characteristics (eg, spatial access to health services) shape vulnerability to drug-related harms among urban residents. Research on the role of place characteristics in shaping these ha...
Araj, Rawan Alqasrawi, Sultan Samy, Sahar Alwahdanee, Ghaya Wadi, Jamal Mofleh, Jawad Alsanouri, Tarek
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, supported by the Biosecurity Engagement Program, contributed significantly to strengthening the preparedness and response to the emerging and re-emerging infections in the region. This study aimed to determine the gaps, challenges, and priorities for preventing the emerging and re-emerging infections...
Ford, Kelsey Lynett Albritton, Tashuna Dunn, Tara A Crawford, Kacy Neuwirth, Jessica Bull, Sheana
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The use of paid social media advertising for targeted study recruitment is an effective strategy in health research and evaluation, specifically to reach diverse youth participants. Although the literature adequately describes the utility of Facebook in recruitment, limited information exists for social media platforms that are more popular with yo...
Bennani, Kenza Khattabi, Asmae Akrim, Mohammed Mahtar, Mohamed Benmansour, Najib Essakalli Hossyni, Leila Karkouri, Mehdi Cherradi, Nadia El Messaoudi, My Driss Lahlou, Ouafae
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JMIR public health and surveillance
The frequency of occurrence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has been increasing globally over the last two decades. In Morocco, EPTB cases account for 46% of the patients reported with a new episode of tuberculosis (TB). Lymph node TB (LNTB) is the most common form of EPTB. In line with the guidelines of the National TB Program, the diagnosis...
Lami, Faris Radhi, Firas Al Dahhan, Safauldeen Hashim, Rana Adel Mahmood, Hussein Araj, Rawan Arbaji, Ali
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Millions of pilgrims attend Arbaeenia mass gathering (MG) in Iraq each year. Thousands of individuals work voluntarily at temporary rest areas (locally called Mawakib), distributed in most of Iraq governorates, to provide food and other services to the MG attendees. The potential for improper handling of food at Mawakib increases the risk of waterb...
Mimura, Wataru Akazawa, Manabu
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Heparinoid is a medication prescribed in Japan for skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis and dry skin. Heparinoid prescription has increased with instances of internet blogs recommending its use as a cosmetic. This study aimed to examine the prescription trends in moisturizer use and analyze their association with internet searches. We used a cl...
Kelley, Dannielle E Brown, Meredith Murray, Alice Blake, Kelly D
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Three major US tobacco companies were recently ordered to publish corrective statements intended to prevent and restrain further fraud about the health effects of smoking. The court-ordered statements began appearing in newspapers and on television (TV) in late 2017. The objective of this study was to examine the social media dissemination of the t...
Wu, Dan Huang, Wenting Zhao, Peipei Li, Chunyan Cao, Bolin Wang, Yifan Stoneking, Shelby Tang, Weiming Luo, Zhenzhou Wei, Chongyi
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Men who have sex with men (MSM), including both gay and bisexual men, have a high prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in China. However, healthcare seeking behaviors and engagement in clinical services among MSM are often suboptimal. Global evidence shows that embedding online HIV or sexual health services into gay social n...
