The substantial awareness role of web-based and social media platforms in developing countries during a pandemic scenario: the example of COVID-19 | Zendy

M-Nasan Abdul Baki | Zendy; Yaseen Dhemesh | Zendy; Lugien Alasadi | Zendy; Tamim Alsuliman | Zendy

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The substantial awareness role of web-based and social media platforms in developing countries during a pandemic scenario: the example of COVID-19

Author(s) -

M-Nasan Abdul Baki,

Yaseen Dhemesh,

Lugien Alasadi,

Tamim Alsuliman

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa075

Subject(s) - pandemic , social media , context (archaeology) , public relations , public health , covid-19 , political science , population , global health , information dissemination , tracking (education) , internet privacy , business , health care , medicine , sociology , environmental health , computer science , history , world wide web , law , nursing , disease , archaeology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pedagogy

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.

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