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A language-matching model to improve equity and efficiency of COVID-19 contact tracing
2021
Contact tracing is a pillar of COVID-19 response, but language access and equity have posed major obstacles. ...
These findings have important implications for reducing social disparities in COVID-19; improving equity in healthcare access; and, more broadly, leveling language differences in public services. ...
We thank Jessica Vazquez, Alison Sikola, Sara Stahlberg, Udari Perera, Theodora Fries, and Miriam Woodward for terrific help in implementing the language-matching intervention; Ruth Marinshaw, Valerie ...
doi:10.1073/pnas.2109443118
pmid:34686604
pmcid:PMC8639369
fatcat:4avnmn3oinhxzkwf5ommgjqkdu
COVID-19: digital contact tracing technologies and ethical challenges
2020
International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
Digital contact tracing technologies (DCTT) are used in public health surveillance to support rapid reporting, data management and analysis with the intention to improve the efficacy of the health system ...
Globally 47 contact tracing apps are available and for maximally effective for contact identification it should be adopted by 60-75% of a country's population. ...
role in supporting contact tracing for COVID-19. ...
doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20203027
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Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic
2021
Government Information Quarterly
improve the quality of healthcare services and social wellbeing. ...
Area (EEA) and outline how these systems and technologies map against four dimensions of public value: user orientation, participation, legality and equity. ...
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. ...
doi:10.1016/j.giq.2021.101581
fatcat:gp7qrzcjpbeqjm67s5pr6invdq
Safely opening schools: artificial intelligence techniques to control transmission of COVID-19
2021
International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
Artificial intelligence techniques and similar digital technologies are promising applications for surveillance systems, contact tracing, and pandemic planning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
, and prediction potential COVID-19 outbreaks at schools. ...
The applications of the AISOS model are noted as; COVID-19 surveillance, namely contact tracing, thermal imaging, remote monitoring, wearable sensors, school response including health planning and preparing ...
doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20210029
fatcat:seec6gv43nev7iy6s2uleemkka
Appraisal of a Contact Tracing Training Program for COVID-19 in Greece Focusing on Vulnerable Populations
2021
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Contact tracing efforts work best in a systematic and coordinated way and the provision of systematic and organised training can greatly increase its effectiveness. ...
Contact tracing as an epidemiological strategy has repeatedly contributed to the containment of various past epidemics and succeeded in controlling the spread of disease in the community. ...
MODULE 2 : 2 Contact tracing for COVID-19 prevention: the following areas were covered: ▶ Describe what contact tracing is and how it stops transmission of SARS-CoV-2; ▶ Define a case of COVID-19 and a ...
doi:10.3390/ijerph18179257
pmid:34501844
fatcat:pe45sql3sffebdw6ghlmkjm53q
Vaccine Prioritisation Using Bluetooth Exposure Notification Apps
[article]
2020
medRxiv
pre-print
To compare vaccination strategies we introduce a novel and widely generalizable measure of vaccination efficiency. ...
The results of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials suggest that an end to the pandemic is within reach. ...
Acknowledgements We acknowledge support from the National Sciences and ...
doi:10.1101/2020.12.14.20248186
fatcat:wvgzosptcbef5bxyozbifactzu
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on California farmworkers: Better local data collection and reporting will improve strategic response
2020
Statistical Journal of the IAOS
promising approaches to improve representativeness of test-derived data on COVID-19 by making it easier to access testing and support services, coupled with messaging to broaden farmworkers' and other ...
The analysis includes a quantitative estimate of the impact COVID-19 has on farmworker households and highlights how socioeconomic factors and housing conditions give rise to health disparities. ...
and effective interventions to combat COVID-19 in communities of farmworkers and immigrants. ...
doi:10.3233/sji-200763
fatcat:jmi5njc22jcsppvcurdfzvbm54
Modelling the health and economic impacts of different testing and tracing strategies for COVID-19 in the UK
2020
F1000Research
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is resurgent in the UK and health and economic costs of the epidemic continue to rise. ...
Methods: We combine modelling, economic analysis and a user-friendly interface to contrast the impact and costs of different testing strategies: two levels of testing within the current test-trace-isolate ...
rate (IFR) and the testing and tracing levels to constrain the model to mimic the reality of the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK until November 07, 2020. ...
doi:10.12688/f1000research.27980.1
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Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of the Literature. (Preprint)
2021
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Digital contact tracing apps (DCTAs) have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset ...
recommendations and the number of contact alert receivers who subsequently are tested positive for COVID-19. ...
Acknowledgments This study was supported by Science Foundation Ireland grants 20/COV/0133 and 13/RC/2094. ...
doi:10.2196/27753
pmid:34003764
fatcat:7ksr7g6dqjaqfa33hiefhaoa3a
The RADx Tech Deployment Core: A Model for Academic/Government Based Support of Large-Scale Manufacturing and Implementation of Medical Technologies
2021
IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
The Deployment Core, therefore, quickly scaled a team to help to complete the picture and provide guidance to end users and ultimately help shape public policy around a useful data model. ...
This paper explores how the approach, process, and learnings of the RADxSM Tech Deployment Core in its support of manufacturing, deployment, and implementation of medical technologies is creating a replicable ...
Zainal, MS, Ph.D, and all the many RADx team members who contributed to the success of the RADx Deployment Core fulfilling its goals. ...
doi:10.1109/ojemb.2021.3070822
pmid:34192288
pmcid:PMC8118688
fatcat:uwpwhueihjaola4q4dortodlgy
Responding to pandemics and other disease outbreaks in homeless populations: A review of the literature and content analysis
2021
Health and Social Care in the community
Considering the recent COVID-19 pandemic, we recognised a lack of synthesis amongst the available literature pertaining to the intersections of homelessness and pandemic response and planning. ...
Although this review is inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, our intention was to produce relevant recommendations to for all current and future outbreaks and pandemics more generally. ...
Equitable pandemic preparedness and rapid response: Lessons from COVID-19 for pandemic health equity. ...
doi:10.1111/hsc.13380
pmid:33825271
pmcid:PMC8251050
fatcat:yqyvz6a6srbvnh5tzzu32n3qgy
Comparative analysis of China's Health Code, Australia's COVIDSafe and New Zealand's COVID Tracer Surveillance Apps: a new corona of public health governmentality?
2020
Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture & Policy
Based on a comparative analysis of the selected apps and the political economy that surrounds their code and implementation, we argue that there is a new corona of surveillance to address COVID-19 crises ...
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown of cities worldwide generated a dramatic increase in the use of public health trac(k)ing technologies. ...
in 1968 and the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic (Tognotti, 2013) , suggests that nationstates had reason to extensively embed NPIs of social distancing and contact tracing during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic into ...
doi:10.1177/1329878x20968277
fatcat:2gpa76ltjvfdvnlgshmfxnmu4u
COVID-19 Countermeasures and Passengers' Confidence of Urban Rail Travel in Bangkok
2021
Sustainability
Contact tracing application was also found to raise awareness and confidence. ...
The objectives of this study were to evaluate COVID-19 countermeasures of Bangkok's urban rail from passengers' viewpoints and examine its influence on passenger's confidence. ...
Acknowledgments: Sincere thank is due to Wiroj Rujopakarn, Kasetsart University, for invaluable advice on the structural equation modeling technique. ...
doi:10.3390/su13169377
fatcat:t5nvlr6pm5a6pfbshpvvvjhtpi
Blockchain Enabled Transparent and Anti-Counterfeiting Supply of COVID-19 Vaccine Vials
2021
Vaccines
In this paper the authors have proposed a solution based on blockchain to increase the security and transparency in the tracing of COVID-19 vaccination vials. ...
The proposed solution will help to generate a tamper-proof and secure environment for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccination vials. ...
Use cases related to technology like blockchain can help to manage the pandemic of COVID-19 by tracing contacts, data sharing of patients, supply and distribution management are presented in [33] . ...
doi:10.3390/vaccines9111239
pmid:34835170
pmcid:PMC8620123
fatcat:efjtfq2kgzcmpjbxkvddoagzwu
A NOAA Fisheries science perspective on the conditions during and post COVID-19: Challenges, observations, and some possible solutions, or why the future is upon us
2020
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Many fisheries and marine science organizations are working to determine how to meet their missions in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
We need to find ways to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on our mission and also to glean information from our responses while in the midst of the crisis. ...
Apple and Google have also announced its partnership to develop a contact tracing technology to reduce the spread of COVID-19. ...
doi:10.1139/cjfas-2020-0346
fatcat:soaxigdrlzc7tcjtgksllaaapm
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