The mass communication model and interactive ritual chain theory,which serve as communication paradigms in the new media era,facilitate and enhance the synergy between the fields of social history of medicine and heal...The mass communication model and interactive ritual chain theory,which serve as communication paradigms in the new media era,facilitate and enhance the synergy between the fields of social history of medicine and health communication.This study employs a comprehensive framework based on the five elements of the mass communication model:information source,communication subject,communication object,message content,and post-communication feedback.Additionally,it incorporates the interactive ritual chain theory to examine the evolving dynamics and developmental trajectory of research in the social history of medicine during the new media era.Conclusively,this paper acknowledges the existing interaction gaps in the interaction between health communication and the social history of medicine research while outlining the challenges for fostering collaboration and proposing strategic optimizations for effective integration.展开更多
Background:The COVID-19 pandemic and governments’attempts to contain it are negatively affecting young children’s health and development in ways we are only beginning to understand and measure.Responses to the pande...Background:The COVID-19 pandemic and governments’attempts to contain it are negatively affecting young children’s health and development in ways we are only beginning to understand and measure.Responses to the pandemic are driven largely by confining children and families to their homes.This study aims to assess the levels of and associated socioeconomic disparities in household preparedness for protecting young children under the age of five from being exposed to communicable diseases,such as COVID-19,in low-and middle-income countries(LMICs).Methods:Using data from nationally representative household surveys in 56 LMICs since 2016,we estimated the percentages of young children under the age of five living in households prepared for communicable diseases(e.g.,COVID-19)and associated residential and wealth disparities at the country-and aggregate-level.Preparedness was defined on the basis of space for quarantine,adequacy of toilet facilities and hand hygiene,mass media exposure at least once a week,and phone ownership.Disparities within countries were measured as the absolute gap in two domains—household wealth and residential area-and compared across regions and country income groups.Results:The final data set included 766,313 children under age five.On average,19.4%of young children in the 56 countries lived in households prepared for COVID-19,ranging from 0.6%in Ethiopia in 2016 to 70.9%in Tunisia in 2018.In close to 90%of countries(50),fewer than 50%of young children lived in prepared households.Young children in rural areas or in the poorest households were less likely to live in prepared households than their counterparts.Conclusions:A large portion of young children under the age of five in LMICs were living in households that did not meet all preparedness guidelines for preventing COVID-19 and caring for patients at home.This study highlights the need to ensure all families in LMICs have the means to prevent the spread of the pandemic or other communicable illnesses to young children during pandemics.展开更多
This paper considers the integrated concept of personal communication freedom which did not appear earlier in the scientific literature as independent object of research. The author puts forward some hypotheses concer...This paper considers the integrated concept of personal communication freedom which did not appear earlier in the scientific literature as independent object of research. The author puts forward some hypotheses concerning the maintenance and the humanistic importance of communication freedom. The special attention is given to a category of the person which unites in it so-called writers, readers and all other people who have been not included in process of a mass communication. As a result of the theoretical analysis, he offers the program of complex research of this phenomenon and construction of model of mass communications which should be based on an ideal of personal freedom and should reflect national-cultural features of the social environment. In particular, it is a question of national-cultural model of media in Russia.展开更多
Breastfeeding practices are influenced by multifactorial determinants including individual characteristics,external support systems,and media influences.This commentary emphasizes such complex factors influencing brea...Breastfeeding practices are influenced by multifactorial determinants including individual characteristics,external support systems,and media influences.This commentary emphasizes such complex factors influencing breastfeeding practices.Potential methodological limitations and the need for diverse sampling in studying breastfeeding practices are highlighted.Further research must explore the interplay between social influences,cultural norms,government policies,and individual factors in shaping maternal breastfeeding decisions.展开更多
Stunting remains a particular challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite encouraging declines in Tanzania over the past 25 years, one-third of Tanzanian children under the age of five years are stunted. Diarrhea remains...Stunting remains a particular challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite encouraging declines in Tanzania over the past 25 years, one-third of Tanzanian children under the age of five years are stunted. Diarrhea remains one of the greatest causes of childhood stunting worldwide. Mass media has been used to improve the uptake of behaviors associated with reductions in diarrhea. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a mass media campaign in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania from 2015-2020 and positive changes in caregiver health-seeking behaviors related to diarrhea in children. Approximately 5000 households participated in a cross-sectional survey after a communications campaign. Exposure variables included hearing and seeing radio and TV spots and participating in a variety of interpersonal communication approaches. Study results indicated primary caregivers (mothers) exposed to media messages only (OR 1.66, CI 1.05 - 2.62), and to media messages and interpersonal communication (OR 2.51, CI 1.48 - 4.26), were more likely to seek advice or treatment for diarrhea from a health facility. Primary caregivers exposed to both media messages and interpersonal communication were more likely to give oral rehydration salts (OR 2.56, CI 1.72 - 3.79), zinc tablets/syrup (OR 1.74, CI 1.18 - 2.57), and homemade fluids (OR 2.02, CI 1.15 - 3.55) when their children had diarrhea. Male heads of household (fathers) exposure to mass media was not associated with care-seeking for diarrhea treatment.展开更多
This study presents the possibilities and particularities of political communication subject Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party (SDKU-DS) convergence during Slovak premature elections in 2012. Th...This study presents the possibilities and particularities of political communication subject Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party (SDKU-DS) convergence during Slovak premature elections in 2012. The significance is being drawn to the identification of formal and informal political party leader personalization of effectivity. By using semantic differential method, we are identifying how students from internal and external study programmes of mass media studies specialization perceive political candidates of SDKU-DS, with the emphasis on gender differentiation of perception展开更多
As part of business translation, web page translation is an effective way of global communication. Accurate and adequate translation of web pages can enhance the enterprises' competitiveness. This paper focuses on th...As part of business translation, web page translation is an effective way of global communication. Accurate and adequate translation of web pages can enhance the enterprises' competitiveness. This paper focuses on the features of Chinese and Western web pages of garment enterprises and the translation strategy with the guidance of mass communication theory. Results illustrate that Chinese texts favor symmetrical phrases rich in cultural connotation, whereas English texts prefer plain language with fewer culture-loaded expressions and the latter focuses more on the feeling of audiences. As a result, audience-oriented translation strategy is strongly recommended so as to maximize the communication effect of the enterprise web pages展开更多
With the advent and widespread information and communication technologies, pace of human activity has accelerated markedly new industries, new management techniques. And in the world community, now prevalent idea of d...With the advent and widespread information and communication technologies, pace of human activity has accelerated markedly new industries, new management techniques. And in the world community, now prevalent idea of democracy with equal rights and freedoms for all citizens of a democratic state is a risk and a challenge to the integrity of a community. Against this background, it becomes important not only process control, but also a system of communication between society and the state. For effective interaction between society and the state, the government needs a new, streamlined platform for the provision of public services. This site was e-government. Currently, the concept of "open government" is implemented in the administration of the state in all developed countries. This paper deals with modern communication mechanism of the state and society in Russia, for example, "e-government", and the effectiveness of this mechanism in the process of changing demands of society.展开更多
This paper investigates the consensus control of multi-agent systems(MASs) with constrained input using the dynamic event-triggered mechanism(ETM).Consider the MASs with small-scale networks where a centralized dynami...This paper investigates the consensus control of multi-agent systems(MASs) with constrained input using the dynamic event-triggered mechanism(ETM).Consider the MASs with small-scale networks where a centralized dynamic ETM with global information of the MASs is first designed.Then,a distributed dynamic ETM which only uses local information is developed for the MASs with large-scale networks.It is shown that the semi-global consensus of the MASs can be achieved by the designed bounded control protocol where the Zeno phenomenon is eliminated by a designable minimum inter-event time.In addition,it is easier to find a trade-off between the convergence rate and the minimum inter-event time by an adjustable parameter.Furthermore,the results are extended to regional consensus of the MASs with the bounded control protocol.Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.展开更多
基金University of Science and Technology of China Quality Project History of Medicine(2023YCZX02)Digital Museum Construction Project of Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(BB2110240080)The National Key R&D project granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology(2018YFA0902400).
文摘The mass communication model and interactive ritual chain theory,which serve as communication paradigms in the new media era,facilitate and enhance the synergy between the fields of social history of medicine and health communication.This study employs a comprehensive framework based on the five elements of the mass communication model:information source,communication subject,communication object,message content,and post-communication feedback.Additionally,it incorporates the interactive ritual chain theory to examine the evolving dynamics and developmental trajectory of research in the social history of medicine during the new media era.Conclusively,this paper acknowledges the existing interaction gaps in the interaction between health communication and the social history of medicine research while outlining the challenges for fostering collaboration and proposing strategic optimizations for effective integration.
基金UKRI Collective Fund Award(Grant Ref:ES/T003936/1)to the University of Oxford,UKRI ESRC GCRF,Harnessing the power of global data to support young children’s learning and development:Analyses,dissemination and implementation。
文摘Background:The COVID-19 pandemic and governments’attempts to contain it are negatively affecting young children’s health and development in ways we are only beginning to understand and measure.Responses to the pandemic are driven largely by confining children and families to their homes.This study aims to assess the levels of and associated socioeconomic disparities in household preparedness for protecting young children under the age of five from being exposed to communicable diseases,such as COVID-19,in low-and middle-income countries(LMICs).Methods:Using data from nationally representative household surveys in 56 LMICs since 2016,we estimated the percentages of young children under the age of five living in households prepared for communicable diseases(e.g.,COVID-19)and associated residential and wealth disparities at the country-and aggregate-level.Preparedness was defined on the basis of space for quarantine,adequacy of toilet facilities and hand hygiene,mass media exposure at least once a week,and phone ownership.Disparities within countries were measured as the absolute gap in two domains—household wealth and residential area-and compared across regions and country income groups.Results:The final data set included 766,313 children under age five.On average,19.4%of young children in the 56 countries lived in households prepared for COVID-19,ranging from 0.6%in Ethiopia in 2016 to 70.9%in Tunisia in 2018.In close to 90%of countries(50),fewer than 50%of young children lived in prepared households.Young children in rural areas or in the poorest households were less likely to live in prepared households than their counterparts.Conclusions:A large portion of young children under the age of five in LMICs were living in households that did not meet all preparedness guidelines for preventing COVID-19 and caring for patients at home.This study highlights the need to ensure all families in LMICs have the means to prevent the spread of the pandemic or other communicable illnesses to young children during pandemics.
文摘This paper considers the integrated concept of personal communication freedom which did not appear earlier in the scientific literature as independent object of research. The author puts forward some hypotheses concerning the maintenance and the humanistic importance of communication freedom. The special attention is given to a category of the person which unites in it so-called writers, readers and all other people who have been not included in process of a mass communication. As a result of the theoretical analysis, he offers the program of complex research of this phenomenon and construction of model of mass communications which should be based on an ideal of personal freedom and should reflect national-cultural features of the social environment. In particular, it is a question of national-cultural model of media in Russia.
文摘Breastfeeding practices are influenced by multifactorial determinants including individual characteristics,external support systems,and media influences.This commentary emphasizes such complex factors influencing breastfeeding practices.Potential methodological limitations and the need for diverse sampling in studying breastfeeding practices are highlighted.Further research must explore the interplay between social influences,cultural norms,government policies,and individual factors in shaping maternal breastfeeding decisions.
文摘Stunting remains a particular challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite encouraging declines in Tanzania over the past 25 years, one-third of Tanzanian children under the age of five years are stunted. Diarrhea remains one of the greatest causes of childhood stunting worldwide. Mass media has been used to improve the uptake of behaviors associated with reductions in diarrhea. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a mass media campaign in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania from 2015-2020 and positive changes in caregiver health-seeking behaviors related to diarrhea in children. Approximately 5000 households participated in a cross-sectional survey after a communications campaign. Exposure variables included hearing and seeing radio and TV spots and participating in a variety of interpersonal communication approaches. Study results indicated primary caregivers (mothers) exposed to media messages only (OR 1.66, CI 1.05 - 2.62), and to media messages and interpersonal communication (OR 2.51, CI 1.48 - 4.26), were more likely to seek advice or treatment for diarrhea from a health facility. Primary caregivers exposed to both media messages and interpersonal communication were more likely to give oral rehydration salts (OR 2.56, CI 1.72 - 3.79), zinc tablets/syrup (OR 1.74, CI 1.18 - 2.57), and homemade fluids (OR 2.02, CI 1.15 - 3.55) when their children had diarrhea. Male heads of household (fathers) exposure to mass media was not associated with care-seeking for diarrhea treatment.
文摘This study presents the possibilities and particularities of political communication subject Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party (SDKU-DS) convergence during Slovak premature elections in 2012. The significance is being drawn to the identification of formal and informal political party leader personalization of effectivity. By using semantic differential method, we are identifying how students from internal and external study programmes of mass media studies specialization perceive political candidates of SDKU-DS, with the emphasis on gender differentiation of perception
文摘As part of business translation, web page translation is an effective way of global communication. Accurate and adequate translation of web pages can enhance the enterprises' competitiveness. This paper focuses on the features of Chinese and Western web pages of garment enterprises and the translation strategy with the guidance of mass communication theory. Results illustrate that Chinese texts favor symmetrical phrases rich in cultural connotation, whereas English texts prefer plain language with fewer culture-loaded expressions and the latter focuses more on the feeling of audiences. As a result, audience-oriented translation strategy is strongly recommended so as to maximize the communication effect of the enterprise web pages
文摘With the advent and widespread information and communication technologies, pace of human activity has accelerated markedly new industries, new management techniques. And in the world community, now prevalent idea of democracy with equal rights and freedoms for all citizens of a democratic state is a risk and a challenge to the integrity of a community. Against this background, it becomes important not only process control, but also a system of communication between society and the state. For effective interaction between society and the state, the government needs a new, streamlined platform for the provision of public services. This site was e-government. Currently, the concept of "open government" is implemented in the administration of the state in all developed countries. This paper deals with modern communication mechanism of the state and society in Russia, for example, "e-government", and the effectiveness of this mechanism in the process of changing demands of society.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51939001,61976033,62273072)the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (2022NSFSC0903)。
文摘This paper investigates the consensus control of multi-agent systems(MASs) with constrained input using the dynamic event-triggered mechanism(ETM).Consider the MASs with small-scale networks where a centralized dynamic ETM with global information of the MASs is first designed.Then,a distributed dynamic ETM which only uses local information is developed for the MASs with large-scale networks.It is shown that the semi-global consensus of the MASs can be achieved by the designed bounded control protocol where the Zeno phenomenon is eliminated by a designable minimum inter-event time.In addition,it is easier to find a trade-off between the convergence rate and the minimum inter-event time by an adjustable parameter.Furthermore,the results are extended to regional consensus of the MASs with the bounded control protocol.Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.