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Rukhsana Ahmed
Researcher at State University of New York System
Publications - 53
Citations - 628
Rukhsana Ahmed is an academic researcher from State University of New York System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Health communication. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 47 publications receiving 496 citations. Previous affiliations of Rukhsana Ahmed include University of Ottawa & University at Albany, SUNY.
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The effect of source credibility on consumers' perceptions of the quality of health information on the Internet
TL;DR: Examination of consumer evaluations of web pages attributed to a credible source as compared to generic web pages on measures of message quality demonstrated that differences in attribution to a source did not have a significant effect on consumers' evaluations of the quality of the information.
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Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets.
TL;DR: This paper investigated the surge in use of COVID-19-related preprints by media outlets and found a ubiquity of hyperlinks as citations and a multiplicity of framing devices for highlighting the scientific uncertainty associated with COVID19 preprints.
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Syrian Refugee Youth Use Social Media: Building Transcultural Spaces and Connections for Resettlement in Ottawa, Canada
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of social media in facilitating and building transcultural communication and connections for forced migrants in today's contexts of resettlement, focusing on recently resettled Syrian refugee youth in Canada.
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“Immigrants Can Be Deadly”: Critical Discourse Analysis of Racialization of Immigrant Health in the Canadian Press and Public Health Policies
TL;DR: By examining the role of the Canadian press in framing health and social issues of immigrants, the authors highlight the issues of power and social injustice in which immigrant health is constructed and handled by Canada’s health policies.
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Using machine translation in clinical practice
TL;DR: While professionally trained medical interpreters remain the criterion standard for interpretation in clinical practice, they are often not available in community-based practices and physicians are beginning to turn to machine translation to supplement their communication.