Utilizing health information technology to improve vaccine communication and coverage

Stockwell, Melissa S.; Fiks, Alexander G.

doi:10.4161/hv.25031

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“…All together these results indicate that peer influence and social contagion are content dependent and far from being trivial. It is important to mention how social media and more in general technology are also used to improve vaccine communication and coverage via texts, emails, calls, apps, and web services [748][749][750].…”

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Statistical physics of vaccination

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Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease transmission have been studied to help understand disease dynamics and inform prevention strategies. Vaccination-one of the most important preventive measures of modern times-is of great interest both theoretically and empirically. And in contrast to traditional approaches, recent research increasingly explores the pivotal implications of individual behavior and heterogeneous contact patterns in populations. Our report reviews the developmental arc of theoretical epidemiology with emphasis on vaccination, as it led from classical models assuming homogeneously mixing (mean-field) populations and ignoring human behavior, to recent models that account for behavioral feedback and/or population spatial/social structure. Many of the methods used originated in statistical physics, such as lattice and network models, and their associated analytical frameworks. Similarly, the feedback loop between vaccinating behavior and disease propagation forms a coupled nonlinear system with analogs in physics. We also review the new paradigm of digital epidemiology, wherein sources of digital data such as online social media are mined for high-resolution information on epidemiologically relevant individual behavior. Armed with the tools and concepts of statistical physics, and further assisted by new sources of digital data, models that capture nonlinear interactions between behavior and disease dynamics offer a novel way of modeling real-world phenomena, and can help improve health outcomes. We conclude the review by discussing open problems in the field and promising directions for future research.

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Section: Social Media Based Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Statistical physics of vaccination

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“…Now a day in health care system, management can easily maintain the record of infants or adults. Members of health provider could easily fetch out the data of patient anytime or anywhere and its relevant record [3].…”

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“…Vaccination system become rationalized with the advanced tools like use of E-data, increase the number of patients interacted and contacted with the intervention [3,8].…”

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“…Thus there is a need to adapt technology for healthcare system especially for under-developed countries and especially for the infectious diseases. Polio is one of the infection disease caused by poliovirus and still spreads only in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria [1,2,3]. Existing polio vaccination system of Pakistan is incompetent and ineffective.…”

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Mobile Technology based Polio-Vaccination System (PVS) – First Step Towards Polio-Free Pakistan

Afzal¹,

Missen²,

Firdous³

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Abstract-Health information technology revolutionized the world with its great expansion and widespread in the domain of health care system. Most of the developed countries adopted advanced technology in their vaccination systems. Vaccination systems of many developing countries still lack the use of technology eventually causing mismanagement and corruption to occur in vaccination campaigns. Issues like mismanagement and corruption not only affect vaccination campaigns but also cause further diffusion of a disease. Pakistan is also one of such countries where vaccination system is prone to these and many other issues and hence it does not help in disease eradication. For example, polio remains alive in Pakistan because Pakistan's Polio vaccination system is faced with many problems and the biggest one is security of vaccination teams. Corruption, mismanagement, unawareness among public and life-threat to vaccination teams are the main problems of current polio vaccination system of Pakistan. To overcome these flaws and to make an idyllic system with the new advanced technology, we propose technology oriented secure polio vaccination system. The proposed system is more secure and removes flaws in the current system. We model our proposed system using Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) which is a state-of-the-art tool for formal modeling.

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“…Mobile phones are thus changing the mode of communication globally and have proven a potential method of directly connecting pregnant women and mothers to health services [13]. SMS messages have also shown considerable impact on disease prevention efforts in developing countries and have particularly been quite effective for changing behavior in treatment adherence, smoke cessation, and health care appointment attendance [14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

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confidence: 99%