Chinese Public Attention to the Outbreak of Ebola in West Africa: Evidence from the Online Big Data Platform

Liu, Kui; Li, Li; Jiang, Tao; Chen, Bin; Jiang, Zhenggang; Wang, Zhengting; Chen, Yongdi; Jiang, Jianmin; Gu, Hongtao

doi:10.3390/ijerph13080780

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“…The use of social media pertaining to infectious disease and outbreak situations was another common thread within this theme, and was addressed by seventeen (43%) of the papers. Seven of these articles focused on the use of social media within the recent Ebola outbreak of 2013-2014 [3,9,38,42,46,57] eight others highlighted social media use in recent influenza/MERS, and dengue fever and bubonic plague outbreaks [30,32,40,41]; Yoo et al, 2016;[26,28,29]. Two papers analyzed social media response following news coverage of the Zika Virus [51,57].…”

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“…There is also a need for innovative strategies such as the use of social media to address issues of SRH, empowerment, selfesteem, desires and professional aspirations of HIV-positive adolescents within HIV and AIDS programs. 22 Liu et al 2016 In order to understand and evaluate public reaction in China to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 through Internet surveillance, Baidu Index (BDI) and Sina Micro Index (SMI) data were collected from their official websites. Hotspot areas were identified and qualitative analysis indicated public attention increased with negative news until the appearance of a positive news statement.…”

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“…These findings suggest the potential benefit in paring announcements with the provision of information resources. 38 Thomas et al 2013…”

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The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

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Currie

2018

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Social media has the ability to facilitate disease surveillance, mass communication, health education, knowledge translation, and collaboration amongst health providers in low- and middle-income countries. Misinformation or poorly communicated information can contribute to negative health behaviours and adverse health outcomes amongst consumers, as well as hysteria and chaos. Organizations using social media should provide accurate and readable information. Promotion of credible social media sites by governments, health care professionals and researchers, as well as education on the appropriate use of social media, could help to lessen the effect of misinformation. This is a nascent body of literature and future research should investigate the relative effectiveness of various platforms for different users, other potential uses, and pursue a broader geographical focus.

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The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

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“…Although application of big data in Africa is still in its infancy, recent reports have shown that success has been achieved through the use of digital surveillance to track epidemics (Nsoesie et al, 2015;Chang et al, 2009;Liu et al, (2016)). Even though there are ethical issues to contend with in the use of big data in Africa, an outbreak of an epidemic, sometimes many epidemics become a national crisis as well as a global crisis.…”

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Prospects of Big Data Analytics in Africa Healthcare System

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Peiris²,

Akinloye³

2018

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Big data is having a positive impact in almost every sphere of life, such as in military intelligence, space science, aviation, banking, and health. Big data is a growing force in healthcare. Even though healthcare systems in the developed world are recording some breakthroughs due to the application of big data, it is important to research the impact of big data in developing regions of the world, such as Africa. Healthcare systems in Africa are, in relative terms, behind the rest of the world. Platforms and technologies used to amass big data such as the Internet and mobile phones are already in use in Africa, thereby making big data applications to be emerging. Hence, the key research question we address is whether big data applications can improve healthcare in Africa especially during epidemics and through the public health system. In this study, a literature review is carried out, firstly to present cases of big data applications in healthcare in Africa, and secondly, to explore potential ethical challenges of such applications. This review will provide an update on the application of big data in the health sector in Africa that can be useful for future researchers and health care practitioners in Africa.

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“…A YouTube video uploaded by the New York Times entitled "Ebola Virus Outbreak 2014 which has been viewed over 1.5 million times as of April 26, 2015 showed a young man dying from Ebola outside a healthcare facility in West Africa. At the end of the video, the father of the young man is shown walking away with cash in his hand, which has led commenters to believe the video is a dramatization or propaganda [16,20,25]. Therefore, social media misinformation, fear mongering and information abuse does not only lead to lack of trust in government and health officials, but may desensitize individuals to the severity of the virus.…”

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Digital Technology and Mobile Applications Impact on Zika and Ebola Epidemics Data Sharing and Emergency Response

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M²,

Cf³

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J Health Med Inform

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Increasing diversified world, era of international power diffusion and regionalisation as the world muddles through travel and trade to climate change requires promoting a more cohesive global regime to ameliorate the deficiencies in local and global 2013-2015 and 2015-2016 Ebola and Zika virus epidemics public health emergency of international concern respectively. Zika epidemics devastating and complex complications exposed the flaws in the global surveillance architecture to deal with cross-border health pandemics prevention and containment. This paper examines trade-off between technology-based data access and dissemination, Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemics complications and digital implications in care delivery solutions in pre-, during and post epidemics response and rebuilding. Our findings showed that IT-based health informatics and mobile applications are evolving and minimum global standards to open access and sharing of relevant epidemics data and information on risk communication. Public awareness and alertness, health promotion and education, counselling and guidelines on integrated syndrome surveillance and response were the most common goals and objectives during viral epidemics reduce and avert further transmission. The uses in healthcare services delivery, management, and planning was also documented and have played a critical role in raising awareness EVD and ZIKV travel restriction and delay pregnancy to women at reproductive age, effective use of personal protective equipment and cultural practices against EVD and ZIKV infections spread. Importantly, IT-based enhanced frontline improved collaborative data sharing and communication, coordinated response and recovery. The efficiency of IT-based data and information sharing and communication practices is of critical benefits for evidence informed early warning, social mobilization, advocacy, monitoring and evaluation capabilities. Mobile-based applications innovations during Zika and Ebola epidemics were very crucial for better evidence-based local and global preparedness and solutions to prevent and control epidemics impacts, promote shared benefits and economic growth.

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Chinese Public Attention to the Outbreak of Ebola in West Africa: Evidence from the Online Big Data Platform

Cited by 28 publications

References 29 publications

The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Prospects of Big Data Analytics in Africa Healthcare System

Digital Technology and Mobile Applications Impact on Zika and Ebola Epidemics Data Sharing and Emergency Response

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