Public health campaignsCOVID-19This Perspective discusses the use of fear appeals in promoting health behaviour. The discussion establishes that fear appeal-based public health messages (i.e. public health messages that emphasise the consequences of failing to engage in a particular health behaviour) ...
The situation was similar in Senegal where vaccination campaigns halted because of thepublic health measures—including school closures—put in place to slow down the spread of COVID-19. This measures, Ousseynou Badiane, the coordinator of the Expanded Vaccination Program in Cameroon, resulted in a...
Public perspectives on COVID-19 public health and social measures in Japan and the United Kingdom: a qualitative study Saki Kawamitsu Tin Zar Win Chris Smith BMC Public Health(2024) Public and health care provider attitudes, understanding, and behaviors regarding emergency use authorizations: a sco...
He made the remarks during the country's 39th COVID-19 public briefing on amendments to public health general regulations. "We have noted with the concern of the persistent and sustained anti-vaccination campaigns laced with false narratives that people who are dying from COVID-19 are those who...
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a major public health challenge globally with countries of the world adopting unprecedented infection prevention and control (IPC) measures to urgently curtail the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of the people toward CO...
COVID-19 Government stringency Community mobility Grassroots initiatives Time series Hong Kong 1. Introduction COVID-19 has been the most complex public health crisis of the century. As of March 2021, more than 126 million people in over 180 countries and regions have been infected (World Health...
Reality Check: China has been fully open and transparent about its COVID-19 data. The figures can well stand the test of history. ◆As of 21 January, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) started to update the public on a daily basis on the COVID-19 situation of the previous day ...
days post-holiday (the average incubation time for COVID-19), COVID-19 cases declined 3.5 percent. This effect was not impacted by geographic or political demographics. The bipartisan nature of the campaign's impact demonstrates the importance of publichealthcampaigns that rely on trusted figures....
as well as the use of campaigns compared to everyday governance, and is summarised in the table below. First, we use ‘Party-in-State’ and ‘Party-in-Society’ to respectively delineate the practices deployed by the Party towards the government bureaucracy and towards the wider public. Second...
Funding/Support: This study was supported by grant 20223668 from The Commonwealth Fund and grant 84689 from the Fund for Public Health in New York. Dr Moghadas was supported by COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund grant OV4 – 170643 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research a...