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{"title":"Twitter Voices: Twitter Users’ Sentiments and Emotions About COVID-19 Vaccination within the United States","authors":"Samuel J. Lin, V. Bustos, C. Comer, Samuel M. Manstein, Elizabeth Laikhter, Eric Shiah, Helen Xun, Bernard T Lee","doi":"10.21601/ejeph/11499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21601/ejeph/11499","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has negatively impacted society as a whole. Vaccination became the only reliable solution to overcome the severity of this pandemic. A critical factor to achieve an adequate vaccination coverage is by improving public confidence in immunization. Social media plays an important role in reflecting public perception towards certain topics, such as COVID-19 vaccination. This study aims to evaluate U.S. Twitter users ’ sentiments and emotions towards COVID-19 vaccination, and the changes experienced before and after vaccine rollout. Methods: COVID-19 vaccine related tweets were collected from Twitter ’ s Application Programming Interface. We analyzed tweets from March 11, 2020, to May 17, 2021, and divide them into two groups; before and after the first vaccine was implemented in the U.S. Sentiment analysis, negative binomial regression and linear regression models were used for inferential analysis. Results: A total of 19,654 tweets were extracted. From those, 10,374 and 9,280 tweets were posted before and after COVID-19 vaccine was launched in U.S., respectively. A statistically significant difference was evidenced between the two groups when comparing each individual emotion, and positive and negative sentiments, except for joy. Lastly, a statistically significant increase of the sentiment score in the post COVID-19 vaccine group compared to the pre COVID-19 vaccine group was evidenced. Conclusion: Our findings evidenced that public perception of the COVID-19 vaccine has positively changed over time and suggest that the terms “ trials ” and “ vaccination ” , which were associated to trust, could potentially be used to create targeted educational and promotional schemes to achieve a better vaccination coverage rate.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46467558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biodiversity Conservation: A Preventive Tool for Epidemics and Pandemics","authors":"K. Puri, R. Joshi","doi":"10.21601/ejeph/11497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21601/ejeph/11497","url":null,"abstract":"Accepted: 18 Nov. 2021 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services highlights that there is a close nexus between the global health pandemics and the biodiversity. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly indicated the importance of environmental health. Seeing the advancement of scientific field, it is clear that there is some link between the biodiversity and spread of outbreaks of epidemics and pandemics. Interestingly, preservation of biodiversity has been recognized as an important step to control the disease outbreaks since last one year. If biodiversity is well managed and conserved, it will act as a barrier against the spill-over of infectious diseases.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44983988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of COVID-19 on the Health-Related Quality of Life of Individuals Living in Scottish Communities with High Infection Rates","authors":"D. Campbell, J. Davison","doi":"10.21601/ejeph/11502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21601/ejeph/11502","url":null,"abstract":"Accepted: 24 Oct. 2021 A mixed method sequential study explored the impact of COVID-19 by gaining an understanding of how the pandemic has impacted individual experiences as well as examining if these experiences existed across a wider population of residents. Previous research suggests that socio-economic factors have exacerbated the adverse impact of the pandemic, therefore this study sought to explore this, as well as attempt to identify what these implications could mean for COVID recovery.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44377623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of Liquid Waste Handling Practice of Addis Ketema and its Impact on Shankela River, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia","authors":"Solomon Tibebu, Abebe Worku, Abebaw Shebeshi, Estifanos Kassahun","doi":"10.21601/ejeph/11500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21601/ejeph/11500","url":null,"abstract":"Assessment and its ABSTRACT Addis Ketema is one of the ten sub-cities of Addis Ababa, where the biggest market and the biggest bus station in Ethiopia are located. The liquid waste that is generated from this sub-city is not being handled properly. The objective of this study is to assess the liquid waste handling practice of Addis Ketema and its impact on Shankela River . The data is collected by observation, interviewing garage employees, and interviewing residents. In addition, a triplicate water sample was collected from four sampling sites of Shankela River by using grab sampling. The physicochemical characteristics of the river such as temperature, pH, electric conductivity, dissolved oxygen, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, biological oxygen demand, and chemical oxygen demand were analyzed to determine the impact of the poor liquid waste handling practice of the sub-city on the river. The main reasons that contributed to the poor liquid waste handling practice of Addis Ketema are the discharge of untreated effluents from small and large scale factories, the migration of people from different parts of the country, the poor liquid waste handling practice of residents, the poor solid waste handling practice of Merkato and Autobis Tera , the poor liquid waste handling practice of condominium ’ s and the poor liquid waste handling practice of garages. The interview result shows that out of 81garage employees, only 43 percent have a perception about the health and environmental impacts that come with the poor handling of garage effluent. The questioners that are collected from residents show that compared to other zones, zone 3 has poor liquid waste handling practice. Zone 3 is the third zone with 61 out of 100 residents in having low perception about environmental pollution. It is the first zone in having large number of residents, with 87 out of 100 residents, to be affected with water-borne diseases. It is the third zone with 62 out of 100 residents in dumping their liquid waste improperly. It is the last zone with 12 out of 100 residents in handling the generated liquid waste properly and it is the second zone with 45 out of 100 residents in using bottled water over the water that is supplied by Addis Ababa water and sewerage authority. The physicochemical characteristics of Shankela River indicate that even though the river is polluted by other factors before entering into the sub-city, the poor liquid waste handling practice of the sub-city is affecting the river even more by increasing the pollutant load. Developing sanitary infrastructures, Awareness creation, enforcing environmental laws are some of the methods that can be employed to improve the poor liquid waste handling practice of Addis Ketema","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44945181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 Vaccine and Vaccination Misinformation and Disinformation: Repositioning Our Role as Educators in Pandemic Times","authors":"Michael Bobias Cahapay","doi":"10.21601/ejeph/11498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21601/ejeph/11498","url":null,"abstract":"Accepted: 18 Nov. 2021 We often encounter misleading claims, some of which have potential to influence decisions we make in our daily lives. Many people from all walks of life, even the most schooled, fall prey to the traps of misinformation and disinformation. How do such delusions enter our knowledge base and inform our public opinions and actions? I discuss in this editorial article the bases that underlie the issues of misinformation and disinformation that plague current COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination efforts. Such issues have a philosophical base anchored on the information processing theories and psychological base linked to our cognitive tendencies. I reflect in the end on our primary responsibility as teachers in these issues. I conclude that metacognition or a knowledge of our thinking, if we mindfully dare to pursue it, can help stimulate an enlightened perspective to ourselves that, with our vast influence as educators, may illuminate the perspectives of others.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46522206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effect of Electromagnetic Field of Mobile Phone on Hand Grip and Shoulder Strengths","authors":"M. Tozun, Umut Yasa, B. Aksoy","doi":"10.21601/ejeph/11501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21601/ejeph/11501","url":null,"abstract":"The Effect of Electromagnetic Field of Mobile Phone on Hand Grip and Shoulder Strengths. ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between holding a mobile phone in the non-dominant hand and the hand grip, the shoulder abduction and flexion strengths on the dominant hand side. Materials and Methods: This is an observational study. The study was conducted between November 15, 2019 - November 29, 2019 in 61 adults aged 18-30 years in Izmir, Turkey. Three repeated measurements of hand grip strength, shoulder abduction and shoulder flexion strength in dominant hand / on the shoulder of the dominant hand were compared. Measurements were as follows: In the non-dominant hand when there is no mobile phone (Measurement 1); In the non-dominant hand when there is a switched off mobile phone in (Measurement 2); In the non-dominant hand when there is a mobile phone on in standby mode (Measurement 3). In statistical analysis, student t test and one way or two-way analysis of variance were used for repeated measurements. A p value of ≤0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: There was no significant difference between the first, second and third measurement results in terms of mean grip strength (for each one p>0.05). However, the mean values of shoulder abduction strength and shoulder flexion strength were lower in the third measurem ents compared to the first measurements (for each one p ≤0.05). Conclusion: There is evidence that the contact with the mobile phone in the nondominant hand will cause an acute decrease in muscle strength, especially in the shoulder girdle. Further studies in large populations on the subject of this study are recommended.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43930315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of temperature and humidity on mortality in acute medical admissions","authors":"Philippa White, R. Conway, D. Byrne, D. O’Riordan, B. Silke","doi":"10.29333/ejeph/12446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ejeph/12446","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of and on in ABSTRACT The full effects of meteorological variables on mortality have not yet been elucidated. This study ’ s aim was to investigate whether 30-day in-hospital mortality in emergency hospital admissions for non-respiratory diseases were sensitive to the effects of humidity and ambient temperature on the day of admission. We studied all emergency medical admissions to St. James ’ s Hospital, Dublin, during 2002-2018 (n=113,807) and investigated temperature and humidity on day of admission. We employed multivariable logistic regression to identify temperature and humidity mortality predictors, adjusting for underlying comorbidities. Lower temperatures on day of admission predicted higher 30-day in-hospital mortality (adjusted OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.06-1.17), but lower humidity levels did not (adjusted OR: 0.97, 95% CI: 0.91-1.03). There was no interaction between meteorological variables and comorbidities on mortality. In conclusion, temperature may be a more significant predictor of in-hospital mortality than humidity for non-respiratory","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69933923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Utilization of primary health care facilities in Lagun Community of Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State Nigeria","authors":"Temitope Oyeyemi, Taofik Kolawole Awesu, Oluwatosin Emmanuel Amubieya, Issac Olufemi Dipeolu, M. Oluwasanu, John Adedosu","doi":"10.29333/ejeph/12448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ejeph/12448","url":null,"abstract":"Utilization primary care ABSTRACT Poor funding and mismanagement were identified as a major setback to healthcare service delivery in Nigeria and of which is a prominent factor affecting its coverage and quality. This study examined the gap in the utilization of primary healthcare facilities in Lagun Community of Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State Nigeria. A cross-sectional study design using multi-stage random sampling technique to select 80 respondents that met the criteria were given the opportunity to participate in the study. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect information from respondents. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square were used for data analysis at 0.05 significance level, results showed that mean age of respondents was 30.5±17.0, where majority (97.4%) speaking indigenous Yoruba language. More than half (56.2%) were Christians, 56.6% had secondary education, and two-fifth (40.0%) of respondents being traders. Relationship between utilization and other factors at (X 2 =1.000, df=1, p=0.183) showed that awareness and availability were good, while accessibility and affordability were below the expectation as recommended by World Health Organization. Also, utilization of facilities that embraced health-for-all projected for the year 2020 millennium development goal would have assisted better improvement in achieving an holistic medical architecture through government and other health agencies proactive approaches if more enlightenment, intervention, health insurance accessibility, unalloyed cooperation of the dwellers with various health professionals anticipating in promoting utilization of health facilities in the community.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69933932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tuberculosis and its socioeconomic determinants in Nigeria: An empirical investigation using ARDL approach","authors":"Declan Chibueze Onyechege, Norashidah Mohamed Nor, Azman Saini Wan Ngah Wan, N. Naseem","doi":"10.29333/ejeph/12449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ejeph/12449","url":null,"abstract":"and its An ABSTRACT Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the socioeconomic determinants of tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria. The prevalence of TB in Nigeria in recent years has been on thunderous increase, and this has led to poor health outcome and dwindled economic growth. Nigeria government has put different measures to stop the prevalence of TB in Nigeria, but it seems their efforts are fruitless. This situation becomes a great challenge to the people and the government. These facts motivated this study to empirically investigate socioeconomic factors/determinants which may have been related to TB continuous prevalence despite the government efforts to stop its menace in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: This study used auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for its design and methodology. Unit root test was conducted at the initial stage which led to the decision of using the ARDL model. The ARDL bound test, coefficient test, error correction model, and diagnostic test were conducted. The data used in this study is annual secondary data ranging from 1985 to 2018. The data were sourced from a reliable means. Findings: This study finding shows that there are socioeconomic determinants/factors which related to TB and can control the prevalence of TB in Nigeria. Socioeconomic determinants like income, education, savings, and final consumption expenditure (FCE) were used in this study and they showed a positive relationship with TB. It was only savings and FCE that were significant at 5% and 10%, respectively proving that increase in savings and FCE leads to increase in TB prevalence in Nigeria, which simply implies that people should stop savings in order to fight, control and reduce TB prevalence. Secondly, when FCE is increased meaning no money left to spend to curtail TB, then TB prevalence will increase. Income and education were not significant with TB because savings and FCE are components of income, and they were used in the study. Increase in education may lead to increase in TB prevalence because of the nature of TB transmission from one person, one place to another.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69934934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does social media addiction affect decisional procrastination? Mediation role of work-family life balance","authors":"Orhan Koçak, Hatice Hilal Varan, Mina Dashtbali, Russell Bennett, Yalanda Barner","doi":"10.29333/ejeph/12447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ejeph/12447","url":null,"abstract":"How does media addiction In this study, we examined the mediating role of work-family life conflict in the effect of employees ’ social media addiction on decisional procrastination. Gender, age, marital status, education, and the sector employed were used as control variables. The data were obtained using the social media addiction scale-adult form, work-family life conflict scale, decisional procrastination scale, and the personal information form in the online medium. We analyzed the responses of the 400 participants in the SPSS program and applied descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, mediation, and moderation analyses. As a result of the research, it was found that the increase in social media addiction has a positive effect on work-to-family conflict (WtoF) and family-to-work conflict (FtoW), and decisional procrastination. We concluded that WtoF and FtoW mediate the impact of social media addiction on decisional procrastination. Also, those living with families have a moderation role in the impact of work-family conflict on decisional procrastination.","PeriodicalId":72973,"journal":{"name":"European journal of environment and public health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69933891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}