{"id":7013,"date":"2020-05-20T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:57:23","slug":"measuring-the-outreach-efforts-of-public-health-authorities-and-the-public-response-on-facebook-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-early-2020-a-cross-country-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/20\/measuring-the-outreach-efforts-of-public-health-authorities-and-the-public-response-on-facebook-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-early-2020-a-cross-country-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the Outreach Efforts of Public Health Authorities and the Public Response on Facebook during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Early 2020: A Cross-Country Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Raamkumar\u00a0et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared the outreach efforts of public health authorities (PHAs) in Singapore, United States, and England\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">using Facebook posts. The authors classified posts into themes and compared<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0mean posts per day, mean comments per day, and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0positive to negative<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sentiment ratio<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0between countries<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Overall, the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Singapore\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ministry of Health covered more diverse themes, posted more frequently,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0received\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">comments with\u00a0a more\u00a0favorable sentiment than other PHAs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Raamkumar\u00a0et al. (May 13, 2020). Measuring the Outreach Efforts of Public Health Authorities and the Public Response on Facebook during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Early 2020: A Cross-Country Comparison. Journal of Medical Internet Research.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/19334\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2196\/19334<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raamkumar\u00a0et al.\u00a0compared the outreach efforts of public health authorities (PHAs) in Singapore, United States, and England\u00a0using Facebook posts. The authors classified posts into themes and compared\u00a0mean posts per day, mean comments per day, and\u00a0the\u00a0positive to negative\u00a0sentiment ratio\u00a0between countries. Overall, the\u00a0Singapore\u00a0Ministry of Health covered more diverse themes, posted more frequently,\u00a0and\u00a0received\u00a0comments with\u00a0a more\u00a0favorable sentiment than other PHAs.\u00a0\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/20\/measuring-the-outreach-efforts-of-public-health-authorities-and-the-public-response-on-facebook-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-early-2020-a-cross-country-comparison\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}