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0000-0003-2906-5732
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Sri Lanka Journals Online (JOL)
Date: 31-12-2019
Publisher: Sri Lanka Journals Online (JOL)
Date: 27-12-2021
Abstract: During the recent past, dengue fever and associated complications have been the most important concern for health policy makers of Sri Lanka. The current notification system has considerable inevitable delays in preventive measures. Implementing a laboratory-based real-time antigen (NS1) surveillance system for notification coupled with a rapid preventive response within the Colombo district as a pilot project and compares the notifications with existing national surveillance systems. An online notification platform was established with a centralized database. Seven main laboratories of the private sector linked with the notification system, where they can create new notifications at the central database, whenever the NS1 test detected as positive. Relevant Medical Officers of Health should update action implemented to complete the response process. A dashboard was designed to visualize each notification and its status with a predefined colour code. Patients from 14 Medical Officer of Health (MOH) areas out of 15 were captured. The immediate preventive response was recorded from the field preventive staff for 90% of the reporting. All most all attended patients have given health advice on awareness, prevention, and source reduction through premise inspection by trained field staff with 24hrs of notification. Salient features of the novel system are notification of antigen-positive patients, the rapidity of notification (real-time) and response, user-friendliness, access to multiple stakeholders simultaneously without data duplication, early involvement of the field staff, the ability to trace the cases using checklists and a color-coding system from a dashboard.
Publisher: Sri Lanka Journals Online (JOL)
Date: 31-12-2019
Publisher: Sri Lanka Journals Online (JOL)
Date: 03-01-2017
DOI: 10.4038/JPGIM.8135
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/09732586231170056
Abstract: With the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccination, there was a rise in anti-vaccine narratives leading to vaccine hesitancy. Social media platforms like Facebook have introduced policies to control the spread of these narratives. However, the comments section is frequently ignored. A preliminary anti-vaccination codebook was created using criteria identified in international literature and completed using the comments on the Health Promotion Bureau (HPB)’s Facebook page, which is the centre for health education and publicity of health information in Sri Lanka. Next, the most commented vaccine-related posts for each quarter were extracted from the HPB Facebook page and the comments were coded according to the finalised codebook and were analysed. The finalised codebook contained a total of 24 codes that were organised into six primary categories. A total of 7,316 comments were extracted. The comments that were against vaccination constituted 47.3% of all vaccine-related comments. The most commonly occurring code was ‘health hazards’. It was evident that the number of comments against vaccination has increased with time. This may indicate that anti-vaccination movements are becoming more prevalent in. It is essential to engage in extensive social listening in order to forestall the propagation of anti-vaccine sentiments and conspiracy theories.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Sri Lanka
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