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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Public Health (Oxf)
. 2020 Jun 3;fdaa075.
doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa075. Online ahead of print.
The Substantial Awareness Role of Web-Based and Social Media Platforms in Developing Countries During a Pandemic Scenario: The Example of COVID-19
Mohammad-Nasan Abdul-Baki[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yaseen Dhemesh[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lugien Alasadi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Tamim Alsuliman[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Background: During the outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19, social media platforms have shown effectiveness in information dissemination. Delivering evidence-based medical knowledge and trustworthy recommendations is a difficult mission for classical entities, especially in a war-torn country with a fragile health system. In this context, the role of non-governmental scientific organizations was proven, filling the gap between original scientific sources and a non-English speaking population.
Methods: We reviewed an example of an organization named Syrian Researchers, which publishes based-on-reliable-sources of scientific content and has massive reachability across Middle East and beyond.
Results: We strongly believe that this model is a simple and suitable approach that may be helpful for other low-income or war-torn countries in the context of health-related disasters.
Conclusions: This subject is of high importance and we believe that this approach may ameliorate public health knowledge, thus, participate in defying the COVID-19 consequences.
. 2020 Jun 3;fdaa075.
doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa075. Online ahead of print.
The Substantial Awareness Role of Web-Based and Social Media Platforms in Developing Countries During a Pandemic Scenario: The Example of COVID-19
Mohammad-Nasan Abdul-Baki[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yaseen Dhemesh[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lugien Alasadi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Tamim Alsuliman[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32490518
- DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa075
Abstract
Background: During the outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19, social media platforms have shown effectiveness in information dissemination. Delivering evidence-based medical knowledge and trustworthy recommendations is a difficult mission for classical entities, especially in a war-torn country with a fragile health system. In this context, the role of non-governmental scientific organizations was proven, filling the gap between original scientific sources and a non-English speaking population.
Methods: We reviewed an example of an organization named Syrian Researchers, which publishes based-on-reliable-sources of scientific content and has massive reachability across Middle East and beyond.
Results: We strongly believe that this model is a simple and suitable approach that may be helpful for other low-income or war-torn countries in the context of health-related disasters.
Conclusions: This subject is of high importance and we believe that this approach may ameliorate public health knowledge, thus, participate in defying the COVID-19 consequences.