Reflections on COVID Christmases.

Br J Gen Pract

Alex is an ST4 Academic Clinical Fellow in General Practice based in Bristol, and an Editorial Fellow at the BJGP and BJGP Open. Email:

Published: December 2023

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10688926PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp23X735801DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

reflections covid
4
covid christmases
4
reflections
1
christmases
1

Similar Publications

Cross-Cultural Sense-Making of Global Health Crises: A Text Mining Study of Public Opinions on Social Media Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Developed and Developing Economies.

J Med Internet Res

January 2025

Unitat de Recerca i Innovació, Gerència d'Atenció Primària i a la Comunitat de la Catalunya Central, Institut Català de la Salut, Sant Fruitós de Bages, Spain.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped social dynamics, fostering reliance on social media for information, connection, and collective sense-making. Understanding how citizens navigate a global health crisis in varying cultural and economic contexts is crucial for effective crisis communication.

Objective: This study examines the evolution of citizen collective sense-making during the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing social media discourse across Italy, the United Kingdom, and Egypt, representing diverse economic and cultural contexts.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on well child follow-up visits and vaccination: A Single unit experience from Turkey.

Pak J Med Sci

January 2025

Feyza Koc, MD Associate Professor, Division of Social Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Ege University Children's Hospital, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.

Objective: The aim of the study was to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on frequency of well-child follow-up visits and immunization rate in Turkish tertiary reference hospital's Well-Child Care Outpatient Clinic.

Methods: Children aged one month to 18 years who presented to the Well Child Care Outpatient Clinic of a tertiary referral hospital in Turkey for child health follow-up and immunisation were included in the study. Children with chronic diseases or children who needed to be immunised with a different scheme due to their special conditions were not included.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

With the development of social media platforms such as Weibo, they have provided a broad platform for the expression of public sentiments during the pandemic. This study aims to explore the emotional attitudes of Chinese netizens toward the COVID-19 opening-up policies and their related thematic characteristics. Using Python, 145,851 texts were collected from the Weibo platform.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Public Reason in Times of Corona: Countering Disinformation in the Netherlands.

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

January 2025

Erasmus School of Law and Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Who should decide what passes for disinformation in a liberal democracy? During the COVID-19 pandemic, a committee set up by the Dutch Ministry of Health was actively blocking disinformation. The committee comprised civil servants, communication experts, public health experts, and representatives of commercial online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. To a large extent, vaccine hesitancy was attributed to disinformation, defined as misinformation (or data misinterpreted) with harmful intent.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objective: This study aims to understand the lived experiences of nurse practitioners (NPs) providing patient care during a nursing strike in a hospital setting.

Background: The nursing shortage afflicts the provision of health care. A recurring loss of seasoned nurses represents a loss of expertise and organizational knowledge, leading to internal burnout, inadequate resources, and recently, nursing strikes.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!