SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE AND MENTAL HEALTH DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK
Khyber Medical University Journal, 2021 OBJECTIVE: To investigate relationship of social media exposure with prevalence of depression and anxiety among general public in Lahore, Pakistan during the COVID-19 outbreak. METHODS: A web-based cross-sectional study was conducted via Google forms in June–July 2020 among Pakistani citizens aged ≥18 years. Purposive convenient sampling was done.
Ayesha Sarwar +3 more
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Optimal Vaccine Allocation to Control Epidemic Outbreaks in Arbitrary Networks
, 2013 We consider the problem of controlling the propagation of an epidemic outbreak in an arbitrary contact network by distributing vaccination resources throughout the network.
Enyioha, Chinwendu +4 more
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The Ebola virus disease outbreak in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone: a retrospective analysis of the Viral Haemorrhagic Fever surveillance system, July 2014–June 2015 [PDF]
, 2019 In Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak occurred with substantial differences between districts with someone even not affected. To monitor the epidemic, a community event-based surveillance system was set up, collecting data into the ...
Colizzi, Vittorio +7 more
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Chinese social media reaction to the MERS-CoV and avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreaks [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: As internet and social media use have skyrocketed, epidemiologists have begun to use online data such as Google query data and Twitter trends to track the activity levels of influenza and other infectious diseases.
Chan, CH +6 more
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The potential of socially assistive robots during infectious disease outbreaks [PDF]
Science Robotics, 2020 Robots may address the secondary impact of infectious disease outbreaks by supporting social distancing, mental health, and education.
Brian Scassellati, Marynel Vázquez
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Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome in dynamical small-world networks
, 2004 The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is still threatening the world because of a possible resurgence. In the current situation that effective medical treatments such as antiviral drugs are not discovered yet, dynamical features of the
A. L. Lloyd +23 more
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Street Vendors Hypergrowth: Consequence of Uncontrolled Urbanization In Semarang City [PDF]
, 2017 This paper aims to understand the role of urbanization to street vendors emerging. In the case of Semarang, more than 54% Semarang’s street vendors come from its hinterlands.
Brotosunaryo, Brotosunaryo +2 more
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Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks
PLoS ONE, 2010 Current methods for the detection of contagious outbreaks give contemporaneous information about the course of an epidemic at best. Individuals at the center of a social network are likely to be infected sooner, on average, than those at the periphery.
Christakis, Nicholas A., Fowler, James
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The role of social media in the collaboration, interaction, co-creation and co-delivery of a social venture in an uncertain conflict environment [PDF]
, 2018 This research case study examines the creation and development of a bottom-up social enterprise immediately after the outbreak of a civil war in an Arab country by a group of young patriots in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings in the 2010s ...
Bhattarai, C +5 more
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The Chilean Social Outbreak: towards a New Constitutionalism?
, 2021 Este artículo presenta un estudio del Estallido Social chileno, terminó con el que se han identificado un conjunto de movilizaciones sociales que irrumpieron en varias ciudades de este país desde octubre de 2019. Con duras críticas al modelo económico neoliberal, estas movilizaciones han denunciado la ilegitimidad de la constitución vigente, fruto de ...
Spyer Dulci, Tereza Maria +1 more
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