The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

E Hagg, VS Dahinten, LM Currie - International journal of medical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Social media allows for instant access to, and dissemination of, information
around the globe. Access to social media in low-and middle-income countries has increased …

Epidemiology and challenges of dengue surveillance in the WHO South-East Asia Region

T Tsheten, DJ Gray, ACA Clements… - Transactions of The …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Dengue poses a significant health and economic burden in the WHO South-East Asia
Region. Approaches for control need to be aligned with current knowledge on the …

[HTML][HTML] Participatory disease surveillance: engaging communities directly in reporting, monitoring, and responding to health threats

MS Smolinski, AW Crawley, JM Olsen… - JMIR public health …, 2017 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: Since 2012, the International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance (IWOPS)
has served as an informal network to share best practices, consult on analytic methods, and …

Level of dengue preventive practices and associated factors in a Malaysian residential area during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

DN Mashudi, N Ahmad, S Mohd Said - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral infection that is endemic in more than
100 countries and has the highest incidence among infectious diseases in Malaysia. The …

Recurrent neural networks with TF-IDF embedding technique for detection and classification in tweets of dengue disease

S Amin, MI Uddin, S Hassan, A Khan, N Nasser… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increased usage of Web 2.0 and data-affluent tools such as social media platforms
and web blog services, the challenge of extracting public sentiment and disseminating …

[HTML][HTML] Social Media–Based Interventions for Health Behavior Change in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review

J Seiler, TE Libby, E Jackson, JR Lingappa… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Despite the wealth of evidence regarding effective health behavior change
techniques using digital interventions to focus on residents of high-income countries, there is …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons from the implementation of Mo-Buzz, a mobile pandemic surveillance system for dengue

MO Lwin, K Jayasundar, A Sheldenkar… - JMIR public health …, 2017 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background Approximately 128 countries and 3.9 billion people are at risk of dengue
infection. Incidence of dengue has increased over the past decades, becoming a growing …

Effectiveness of dengue training programmes on prevention and control among high school students in the Yangon region, Myanmar

SH Aung, S Phuanukoonnon, AMM Kyaw… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Background Dengue is one of the health problems in Myanmar. Thus, health promotion in
schools is considered a key approach for reducing risk-taking behaviours related to dengue …

Smartphone geospatial apps for dengue control, prevention, prediction, and education: MOSapp, DISapp, and the mosquito perception index (MPI)

AN Babu, E Niehaus, S Shah, C Unnithan… - Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
India has the largest number of dengue cases in the world, contributing approximately 34%
of the global burden. The framework for a geospatially enabled early warning and adaptive …

Learning from tweets: opportunities and challenges to inform policy making during dengue epidemic

F Shahid, SH Ony, TR Albi, S Chellappan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Social media platforms are widely used by people to report, access, and share information
during outbreaks and epidemics. Although government agencies and healthcare institutions …