HEALTH policyTRUSTDISEASE risk factorsUNIVERSAL healthcareThe government of Israel provides universal health care through four health care organizations ("sick funds") that enjoy general public trust. In hindsight, the response of the government to the COVID-19 epidemic seems reasonable. In the first...
We check whether trust improves the efficiency of policy stringency. We combine three main data sources: COVID-19 mobility reports from Google, trust data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and policy stringency from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker.4 We find that the decline...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the impact of socioeconomic factors on hypertension outcomes. This review examines the implications of the pandemic on the socioeconomic gradient of hypertension and explores the physiological and pathophysiological processes underlying this relationship. C...
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social media;COVID-19;Twitter;public health;public health policy 1. Introduction Infodemiology combines information and epidemiology to analyze geographical patterns of diseases and help inform health policies [1]. It leverages data from various sources, including social network platforms like Twitter 9....
Significantly, no pharmaceutical agents are known to be safe and effective at preventing or treating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the resulting illness.3 This leaves the medical and public health community with only nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to rely on for reducing the burden ...
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...
Hospitals around the nation have enforced stricter visitation policies and adapted new sanitation guidelines, among other measures, in response to the growing number of COVID-19 patients.
JAMA Forum June 29, 2023 US Community Pharmacies and Public Health—Building on the COVID-19 Response Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD1; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD2 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Health Forum. 2023;4(6):e232583. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.2583 ...
While the world was facing a rapidly progressing COVID-19 second wave, a policy paradox emerged. On the one side, much more was known by Autumn 2020 about the mechanisms underpinning the spread and lethality of Sars-CoV-2. On the other side, how such kno