Showing papers in "Public Health in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted, with a particular focus on vaccine hesitance toward COVID19 vaccine.

TL;DR: This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Dahlgren and Whitehead model of the main determinants of health, sometimes known as "The Rainbow Model". as mentioned in this paper reflect on developments over those thirty years before going on to look to the future.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a random-effects meta-analysis to examine the prevalence of workplace violence in emergency departments, including types of violence, instigators, and professions of the victims.

TL;DR: Important regional differences in COVID-19 estimates for children in Brazil were showed and a relationship between mortality rates and socio-economic inequalities was found in a state-level analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified factors associated with aggravated mental health symptoms, such as physical activity promotion and strategies to reduce the economic strain caused by this pandemic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the real-life impact of vaccination on COVID-19 mortality, with adjustment for SARS-CoV-2 variants spread and other factors across Europe and Israel, was estimated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination intentions and attitudes in France and find a positive association between future preference and the willingness to get vaccinated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative influence of sociodemographic predictors on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was determined, including age, ethnicity, gender, education, family income, healthcare worker profession, residence regions, local healthcare facility and vaccine launch period (pre vs post).

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the media discourse about the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Twitter and found that the most frequently retweeted tweets were full of negative information, and in many cases came from media sources that are well-known for misinformation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review and meta-analysis of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) of the general population regarding COVID-19 has been conducted using a random effect model with a 95% confidence interval.

TL;DR: Deterioration of indoor air quality (IAQ) might result from the current isolation due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), yet human perception and lack of information may lead to poor IAQ.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Bayesian ecological time series analysis at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) level was conducted to assess whether ZCTAs with higher proportions of overcrowded and multigenerational households were independently associated with higher suspected COVID-19 case rates (from NYC Department of Health Syndromic Surveillance data for March 1 to 30, 2020).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated completeness and timeliness of the rapidly developed surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in England using patient-level data.

TL;DR: Evaluation of the relationship between telework implementation and the presence of a fever within one month as a surrogate indicator of COVID-19 infection in Japan found that among company employees, a statistical significance was identified in the 15–29 and 30–59 age groups, showing higher fever rates in the non-teleworker group.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors collected, analyzed and synthesized available evidence on novel data streams for surveillance purposes and/or their potential for capturing the public reaction to epidemic outbreaks, particularly focusing on mental health effects and emotions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association between sociodemographic characteristics and COVID-19 in-hospital mortality in Brazil, and found that black/Brown patients had higher in-Hospital mortality than white patients.

TL;DR: This is the largest study analyzing the survival probability in a large subset of Latin-American adults with COVID-19, in whom the disease burden has been high and the results contribute to achieving a better understanding of disease evolution.

TL;DR: Prevention of obesity and promotion of physical activity are at least as important as physical isolation of severely obese individuals during the pandemic as well as changes in health care.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to estimate the pooled uptake of cervical cancer screening and identify its predictors in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the results showed that knowledge about cervical cancer increased screening uptake by nearly five times (OR: 4.81; 95% CI: 3.06, 7.54).

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels on food purchases was evaluated in a systematic review, and the results showed that traffic lights, health star ratings, daily intake guides, health warnings, and high sugar symbol labels were effective for helping participants make healthier food purchase decisions.

TL;DR: The impact of COVID-19 during the early stages of the pandemic is much larger than official figures have reported and could be a result of the excess burden on the health systems, in addition to reduced demand and supply of other non-COVID healthcare services.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple wavelet coherence approach was used to assess the co-movement of the US stock market with the COVID-19 vaccination, infection rate (INFR), and the case fatality ratio (CFR).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated factors predicting severe symptomatic laboratory-confirmed (via Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, RT-PCR polymerase Chain reaction) severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined predictors of interest and avoidance of COVID-19 news in Lithuania and found that younger age, greater post-traumatic stress symptoms and less frequent use of healthcare professionals were independent predictors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tracked changes in attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination during the pandemic and found that resistance to vaccination has significantly increased in two European nations as the Pandemic has progressed.

TL;DR: It is shown that structural racism as represented by the ICE is independently related to IMRs in Chicago; community areas with the largest concentrations of Blacks residents compared with Whites are those with the highest IMRs.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that if mandated social distancing is not initiated until the number of existing COVID-19 cases has doubled, the eventual peak would result in 58% more COVID -19 cases per day.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic search in PubMed, Embase, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Cochrane CENTRAL, Google Scholar and PsycINFO was conducted to identify barriers, facilitators and modifiers to participation in systematised, stool sample-based, publicly financed CRC screening programs.

TL;DR: The prevalence of sexual violence among rural women in Uganda was high and associated with factors such as education level, region, wealth index, justified beating, healthcare decision making, and husband drunk frequency, and there is a need for improving livelihoods and income of rural women.