Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) and healthcare students display high levels of
vaccine hesitancy with impact on healthcare provision, patient safety, and health promotion …

Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Background This mixed methods study explored how social media use informed physical
activity and diet-related behaviours, and self-perceived Quality of Life (QoL) during COVID …

While the use of social media by local governments has gained relevance in recent years,
crises are critical situations that reinforce the need to reach citizens to disclose information …

Purpose The purpose of this rapid scoping review was to map existing literature on risk
communication strategies implemented by authorities and aimed at vulnerable immigrants in …

Background Risk communication is a key component of public health interventions during
an outbreak. As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in late 2019, the World Health …

The theory that health behaviors spread through social groups implies that efforts to control
COVID-19 through vaccination will succeed if people believe that others in their groups are …

With restricted face-to-face interactions, COVID-19 lockdowns and distancing measures
tested the capability of computer-mediated communication to foster social contact and …

Without question, 2020 was an unprecedented period for all businesses and consumers in
the world, especially for social commerce businesses. Growing online shopping during the …

Most studies on COVID-19 preventive behaviors have focused on single-level factors such
as national policy, community social capital, or individuals' sociodemographic …