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Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Social media platforms are a massive source of information being used for monitoring and detecting various actual events such as natural disasters and disease outbreaks. This paper aims to present the experience of WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in using social media for the dete...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9240825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35764352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008759 |
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author | Abbas, Heidi Tahoun, Mohamed Mostafa Aboushady, Ahmed Taha Khalifa, Abdelrahman Corpuz, Aura Nabeth, Pierre |
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description | Social media platforms are a massive source of information being used for monitoring and detecting various actual events such as natural disasters and disease outbreaks. This paper aims to present the experience of WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in using social media for the detection and monitoring of COVD-19 pandemic alongside the other event-based surveillance tools. Over the period of 29 January 2020 to 31 May 2021, information was collected from social media and other media outlets (web news) as being the source of health information for early detecting and monitoring the situation of COVID-19 events. Signals were categorised into new events and event updates; where event updates captured from social media were categorised into official and unofficial. A total of 10 160 COVID-19 information were captured, out of which 95.8% (n=9732) were detected through social media. None of the information captured were discarded. 50.0% (n=11) of the COVID-19 events in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) were primarily captured from social media compared with 4.5% (n=1) primarily captured from other media outlets. Almost all (99.4%) of the event updates captured from social media were official updates. Real-time, transparent and relevant information posted on different social media platforms, especially the governmental official social media accounts, strengthened the early detection and follow-up of public health events in the EMR, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-92408252022-07-20 Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Abbas, Heidi Tahoun, Mohamed Mostafa Aboushady, Ahmed Taha Khalifa, Abdelrahman Corpuz, Aura Nabeth, Pierre BMJ Glob Health Practice Social media platforms are a massive source of information being used for monitoring and detecting various actual events such as natural disasters and disease outbreaks. This paper aims to present the experience of WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in using social media for the detection and monitoring of COVD-19 pandemic alongside the other event-based surveillance tools. Over the period of 29 January 2020 to 31 May 2021, information was collected from social media and other media outlets (web news) as being the source of health information for early detecting and monitoring the situation of COVID-19 events. Signals were categorised into new events and event updates; where event updates captured from social media were categorised into official and unofficial. A total of 10 160 COVID-19 information were captured, out of which 95.8% (n=9732) were detected through social media. None of the information captured were discarded. 50.0% (n=11) of the COVID-19 events in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) were primarily captured from social media compared with 4.5% (n=1) primarily captured from other media outlets. Almost all (99.4%) of the event updates captured from social media were official updates. Real-time, transparent and relevant information posted on different social media platforms, especially the governmental official social media accounts, strengthened the early detection and follow-up of public health events in the EMR, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9240825/ /pubmed/35764352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008759 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Practice Abbas, Heidi Tahoun, Mohamed Mostafa Aboushady, Ahmed Taha Khalifa, Abdelrahman Corpuz, Aura Nabeth, Pierre Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
title | Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
title_full | Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
title_fullStr | Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
title_full_unstemmed | Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
title_short | Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |
title_sort | usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the who, regional office for the eastern mediterranean |
topic | Practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9240825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35764352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008759 |
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