A5041112052- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Media in Health Education
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Historical Medical Research and Treatments
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Blood donation and transfusion practices
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Media Influence and Health
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Risk Perception and Management
- Bioethics and Human Rights Issues
- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
Concordia University of Edmonton
2015-2018
Public Health Ontario
2008-2017
University of Toronto
2006-2017
University Health Network
2009-2011
University of Ottawa
2011
Ottawa Hospital
2011
It is becoming increasingly apparent that there a tension between growing consumer demands for access to information and healthcare system may not be prepared meet these demands. Designing an effective solution this problem will require thorough understanding of the barriers now stand in way giving patients electronic their health data. This paper reviews following challenges related sharing records: cost security concerns, problems assigning responsibilities rights among various players,...
Social media has contributed positively to the interaction between proponents of medical products and technologies public by permitting more direct these two groups. However, it also provided opponents a new mechanism organize opposition. Using example anti-vaccinationism, we provide recommendations for how should address this challenge.
Background: There is a large presence of provaccination and antivaccination content on the Internet. The Internet has been identified as an important source for parents to seek share vaccine information. are concerns that parental fears or hesitancy childhood immunizations increasing due popularity social media exposure online sentiment. No other studies have investigated association between seeking information Canadian parents' perception risk immunization. Objective: We aimed investigate...
More people are searching for immunization information online and potentially being exposed to misinformation antivaccination sentiment in content discussions on social media platforms. As vaccination coverage rates remain suboptimal several developed countries, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases become more prevalent, it is important that we build previous research by analyzing themes discussions, including those individuals may see without actively immunization.
Background Live vaccines have distinct safety profiles, potentially causing systemic reactions one to 2 weeks after administration. In the province of Ontario, Canada, live MMR vaccine is currently recommended at age 12 months and 18 months. Methods Using self-controlled case series design we examined 271,495 month vaccinations 184,312 examine relative incidence composite endpoint emergency room visits or hospital admissions in consecutive day intervals following vaccination. These were...
Arguably, the two most critical components in any response to a pandemic are effective risk communication and rapid development of vaccine. Despite roll-out publicly-funded H1N1 vaccine program across country, less than half all Canadians were vaccinated during 2009–10 pandemic. Using focus group data, this study examined vaccinating behaviors, impact public health messaging, public's attitudes toward three Canadian provinces. Drawing on literature, framework was devised identify analyze...
There is concern over the increase in number of "vaccine-hesitant" parents, which contributes to under-vaccinated populations and reduced herd immunity. Traditional studies investigating parental immunization beliefs practices have relied on random digit dialing (RDD); however, this method presents increasing limitations. Facebook most used social media platform Canada an opportunity recruit vaccine-hesitant parents a novel manner.The study aimed explore use as tool reach compared with RDD...
The US Court of Federal Claims, which adjudicates cases for the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, has been confronted with more than 5000 submitted on behalf children autism spectrum disorders, seeking to link condition vaccination. Through a test case process, Omnibus Autism Proceedings have in every instance found no association between disorders and vaccines. However, vaccine advocates criticized courts having an overly permissive evidentiary causation granting credence...
The precautionary principle is a dominant paradigm governing risk-based decision-making. Today, there are increasing pressures to re-examine aggressive approaches, and assess how the should be applied in modern system. In this paper, we examined three key applications of approaches field transfusion medicine provide insight into risks benefits these approaches. case studies were donor deferral policies safeguard against transmission human immunodeficiency virus, variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob...
Web 2.0 tools in general, and video particular, provide new ways for activists to express their viewpoints a broad audience. In this paper we deployed that have been used find subgroups automatically social networks applied them the problem of distinguishing between two sides controversial issue based on patterns online interaction. We explored anti- pro-vaccination network videos associated comments posted YouTube. Videos analysis were selected by submitting term "vaccination" search A...
Kumanan Wilson and colleagues explain how the rapid response to XMRV as a novel pathogen has highlighted some challenges pertaining policy-making editorial responsibilities. The impact on policy propagation of initial scientific information may not cease if evidence is disproven retracted from peer-reviewed literature, which creates challenge for regulators journals. Please see later in article Editors' Summary
This article explores the factors that contributed to use of different names for H1N1 by diverse actors in early stages pandemic 2009 and discusses implications inconsistent naming practices public's understanding virus credibility scientists health authorities. The authors propose a protocol novel variants modeled after World Meteorological Association's practice weather events, model would enable accurate transmission technical information among experts provide stable name public use, even...