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Exploring pandemic preparedness through public perception and its impact on health service quality, attitudes, and healthcare image [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Pandemic preparedness has gained increased significance in public health following the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, it has been assessed from an internal organizational perspective, focusing on health sector readiness and addressing shortcomings ...
Onur İzmir, Reda M. Lebcir, Oğuz Oypan
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Measuring the burden of infodemics with a research toolkit for connecting information exposure, trust, and health behaviours

Archives of Public Health, 2023
Background During a public health emergency, accurate and useful information can be drowned out by questions, concerns, information voids, conflicting information, and misinformation.
Adam G. Dunn, Tina D. Purnat, Atsuyoshi Ishizumi, Tim Nguyen, Sylvie Briand   +4 more
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WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features

Human Resources for Health, 2022
Background In April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Information Network for Epidemics produced an agenda for managing the COVID-19 infodemic. “Infodemic” refers to the overabundance of information—including mis- and disinformation.
Sara Rubinelli, Tina D. Purnat, Elisabeth Wihelm, Denise Traicoff, Apophia Namageyo-Funa, Angus Thomson, Claire Wardle, Jaya Lamichhane, Sylvie Briand, Tim Nguyen   +9 more
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The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework: strengthening laboratory and surveillance capacities in the Western Pacific Region, 2014–2017

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2020
The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework Partnership Contribution Scheme has enabled countries to further strengthen their preparedness capacities in the areas of laboratory and surveillance, burden of disease estimation, regulatory capacity ...
Hitesh Chugh, Gina Samaan, Tatiana Resnikoff, Isabel Bergeri, Jennifer Barragan, Erica Dueger   +5 more
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Real-World Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Two Doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccination in Children Aged 5–11 Years

Vaccines, 2022
There are limited data concerning the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines in children. A total of 110 children, 5–11 years old were vaccinated with two doses (with a 3-week interval between doses) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 ...
Gili Joseph, Elisheva Klein, Yaniv Lustig, Yael Weiss-Ottolenghi, Keren Asraf, Victoria Indenbaum, Sharon Amit, Or Kriger, Mayan Gilboa, Yuval Levy, Itai M. Pessach, Yitshak Kreiss, Gili Regev-Yochay, Michal Stein   +13 more
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Humoral Immunity of Unvaccinated COVID-19 Recovered vs. Naïve BNT162b2 Vaccinated Individuals: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

Microorganisms, 2023
To study the differences in the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to the response to vaccination, we characterized the humoral immune kinetics of these situations.
Gili Joseph, Carmit Cohen, Carmit Rubin, Havi Murad, Victoria Indenbaum, Keren Asraf, Yael Weiss-Ottolenghi, Gabriella Segal-Lieberman, Yitshak Kreiss, Yaniv Lustig, Gili Regev-Yochay   +10 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a ...
John Amuasi, Reinhard Busse, Wilm Quentin, Elliot Koranteng Tannor, Daniel Opoku   +4 more
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Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40 ...
Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Lisa L. Carter, Abdinasir Abubakar, Rachel Achilla, Amal Barakat, Nicksy Gumede, Alina Guseinova, Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan, Masaya Kato, Etien Koua, Juliana Leite, Marco Marklewitz, Jairo Mendez-Rico, Chavely Monamele, Biran Musul, Karen Nahapetyan, Dhamari Naidoo, Rachel Ochola, Mehmet Ozel, Philomena Raftery, Andrea Vicari, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Joanna Zwetyenga, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Céline Barnadas, Mick Mulders, Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov, Jilian A. Sacks, Taylor Warren, Sébastien Cognat, Sylvie Briand, Gina Samaan   +31 more
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Mental health consequences of COVID-19: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of pandemic-related stressors and anxiety disorders in the USA

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To document the prevalence of anxiety disorders in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design A cross-sectional analysis.Setting A nationally representative sample in the USA between 31 March and 13 April 2020.Participants 1450 English ...
Sandro Galea, Salma M Abdalla, Catherine K Ettman, Gregory H Cohen   +3 more
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Integral Scientific Advice for Outbreak Response: Lessons learned from an Avian Influenza Simulation in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: The continuing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose a public health threat worldwide. Concerns about the risk for humans are raising, now we see spread among different mammal species and animal to human transmission.
Dr Anja Schreijer, Dr. Femke Overbosch, Dr. Tomris Cesuroglu, Dr Charlotte Waltz, Drs. Bart Blokland, Drs Jeanette de Boer, Drs Tim Florschutz   +6 more
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