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Using EpiCore to Enable Rapid Verification of Potential Health Threats: Illustrated Use Cases and Summary Statistics

Using EpiCore to Enable Rapid Verification of Potential Health Threats: Illustrated Use Cases and Summary Statistics

Delays in the effective response to a genuine health threat are often the result of the time to verification of a health event—determining if an unofficial reported threat is real so an appropriate response can ensue. An analysis by Chan et al [5] based on WHO-verified outbreaks reported in Disease Outbreak News noted median time from “outbreak start” to “outbreak discovery” dropped from 29.5 days (95% CI 13-59 days) to 13.5 days (95% CI 3.5-44.5 days) during that time.

Nomita Divi, Jaś Mantero, Marlo Libel, Onicio Leal Neto, Marinanicole Schultheiss, Kara Sewalk, John Brownstein, Mark Smolinski

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e52093

Threat, Coping, and Social Distance Adherence During COVID-19: Cross-Continental Comparison Using an Online Cross-Sectional Survey

Threat, Coping, and Social Distance Adherence During COVID-19: Cross-Continental Comparison Using an Online Cross-Sectional Survey

Threat and coping appraisal mechanisms, grounded in the protection motivation theory (PMT), have been suggested to be precursors of individuals’ actions to protect against infectious diseases [32] such as the influenza outbreak [33]. The intention to adopt a protective behavior such as adhering to the social distance recommendations results from perceiving a given threat such as a disease and desiring to avoid the adverse outcomes of such a threat [34].

Abrar Al-Hasan, Jiban Khuntia, Dobin Yim

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(11):e23019

Internet Searching About Disease Elicits a Positive Perception of Own Health When Severity of Illness Is High: A Longitudinal Questionnaire Study

Internet Searching About Disease Elicits a Positive Perception of Own Health When Severity of Illness Is High: A Longitudinal Questionnaire Study

In a series of experiments with healthy participants, threat was induced based on either providing participants with an ostensible diagnosis [7] or asking them to think and write about a threat they were currently experiencing. Participants then searched for information in a health domain (ie, either information related to the diagnosis or about living organ donation).

Kai Sassenberg, Hannah Greving

J Med Internet Res 2016;18(3):e56