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Pestana RC, Lopes David BB, Pires de Camargo V, Munhoz RR, Lopes de Mello CA, González Donna ML, Haro Varas JC, Zapata ML, Cunha Martins CL, Chacon M, Schmerling R, Jesus-Garcia R. Challenges and opportunities for sarcoma care and research in Latin America: a position paper from the LACOG sarcoma group. LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH. AMERICAS 2024; 30:100671. [PMID: 38259252 PMCID: PMC10801304 DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
As a developing region, Latin America faces unique cancer control and prevention challenges, which are intensified when considering rare cancers, including sarcomas. Sarcomas are a group of malignancies that arise in the connective tissues of the body-such as muscle, fat, nerves, blood vessels, and bones-accounting for a diverse range of tumours that, although rare, require specialized attention. Sarcoma care and research in Latin America require a comprehensive approach that includes deeper epidemiologic knowledge, diagnostic capacity building, access to innovative treatments, increased patient advocacy, and strengthening of clinical research capacity. This article will review current challenges and opportunities for treating patients with sarcoma in Latin America and outline a pathway toward improvement for regional collaborative groups.
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Affiliation(s)
- Roberto Carmagnani Pestana
- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Oncoclínicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional do Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Hospital Sírio Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional del Cancer Paraguay, Capiata, Paraguay
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas, Lima, Perú
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Instituto de Cancerologia las Americas AUNA, Medellin, Colombia
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional do Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Americas Oncologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Fleming Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Dasa Oncologia, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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Matin M, Joshi T, Greger M, Bin Matin F, Jóźwik A, Wierzbicka A, Horbańczuk JO, Willschke H, Atanasov AG. Use of #NutritionFacts to promote evidence-based nutrition information: X (formerly Twitter) hashtag analysis study. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1255706. [PMID: 38131024 PMCID: PMC10734685 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1255706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Nutrition is a key determinant of health, and the dissemination of reliable nutrition information to consumers is of great importance for public health. Especially with the rise of digital communication technologies and the wide-spread online misinformation, the provision of qualitative science-based information related to diet is of great importance. The NutritionFacts.org has been established as a prominent online source of evidence-based nutrition information. In this work we aimed to investigate the use of the associated hashtag #NutritionFacts on X (formerly Twitter) over a 5 years period, from 10th of April 2018 to 10th of April 2023. The conducted analysis with the use of Symplur Signals revealed that 18,998 tweets mentioning #NutritionFacts were posted by 6,136 X users, generating a total of 50,348,223 impressions (views). Both institutional and individual accounts were broadly participating in the dissemination of #NutritionFacts tweets, and the user location profiling indicated wide international engagement with the hashtag. This work indicates that #NutritionFacts has been established as an important hashtag utilized on X for the dissemination of evidence-based information related to nutrition.
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- Maima Matin
- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalenka, Poland
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
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- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalenka, Poland
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- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalenka, Poland
- Department of Technique and Food Product Development, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW), Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalenka, Poland
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Magdalenka, Poland
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Grant C, Sams K. Global narratives on unequal outcomes produced by lockdown in Africa: A social science perspective on the “one-size-fits all” COVID-19 response. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1046404. [PMID: 37064673 PMCID: PMC10095145 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1046404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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IntroductionLockdown measures were introduced worldwide to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and several studies showed the positive impacts of these policies in places such as China and Europe. Many African governments also imposed lockdowns at the beginning of the pandemic. These lockdowns met with mixed reactions; some were positive, but others focused on concerns about the consequences of lockdowns.MethodsIn this article, we use social listening to examine social media narratives to investigate how people balanced concerns about preventing the spread of COVID-19 with other priorities. Analyzing social media conversations is one way of accessing different voices in real time, including those that often go unheard. As internet access grows and social media becomes more popular in Africa, it provides a different space for engagement, allowing people to connect with opinions outside of their own conceptual frameworks and disrupting hierarchies of how knowledge is shaped.ResultsThis article indicates which narratives were favored by different organizations, stakeholders, and the general public, and which of these narratives are most dominant in policy discourses. The range of narratives is found to be reflective of the blindness to inequality and social difference of much decision-making by policymakers.DiscussionThus, contrary to the “we are all in this together” narrative, diseases and public health responses to them clearly discriminate, accentuating long-standing structural inequalities locally, nationally, and globally, as well as interplaying with multiple, dynamic, and negotiated sources of marginalization. These and other insights from this article could play a useful role in understanding and interpreting how social media could be included in pandemic preparedness plans.
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- Catherine Grant
- Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Catherine Grant
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France and School of Health Sciences, Walden University, Columbia, MD, United States
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Nawaz FA, Riaz MMA, Tsagkaris C, Faisal UH, Klager E, Kletecka-Pulker M, Kimberger O, Willschke H, Khan N, Sultan MA, Atanasov AG. Impact of #PsychTwitter in promoting global psychiatry: A hashtag analysis study. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1065368. [PMID: 36908425 PMCID: PMC9992428 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1065368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
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Introduction Multiple studies have shown how valuable Twitter hashtags can be for promoting content related to different themes in the online community. This arena has grown into a rich data source for public health observation and understanding key trends in healthcare on a global scale. In the field of mental health in particular, it would be of benefit to understand and report the key stakeholders' (individual mental health professionals, academic organizations and their countries) trends and patterns of psychiatric knowledge and information dissemination using #PsychTwitter. Objective In this study, we aim to evaluate the achieved outreach of psychiatry-related tweets using the hashtag #PsychTwitter. Methods We utilized the Symplur Signals research analytics tool to characterize tweets containing #PsychTwitter from the 20th of August, 2019, to the 20th of August, 2022. Results The #PsychTwitter movement resulted in 125,297 tweets that were shared by 40,058 Twitter users and generated a total of 492,565,230 impressions (views). The three largest identified groups of contributors were Doctors (13.8% of all tweets), Org. Advocacy (6.2% of all tweets), and Researcher/Academic (4% of all tweets) stakeholders. The top influential accounts consisted of 55 psychiatrists and 16 institutional or organizational accounts. The top 5 countries from where most of the tweets containing #PsychTwitter were shared include the United States (54.3% of all users), the United Kingdom (10.4% of all users), Canada (4.9% of all users), India (2% of all users), and Australia (1.8% of all users). Conclusion This is the first of its kind study featuring the influence and usage of #PsychTwitter and covering its global impact in the field of psychiatry using the Twitter platform. Our results indicate that Twitter represents a broadly used platform for mental health-related discussions.
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- Faisal A Nawaz
- Department of Psychiatry, Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Faisalabad Medical University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- European Student Think Tank, Public Health and Policy Working Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani, India
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University Nevada, Henderson, NV, United States
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- Mental Health Center of Excellence, Al Jalila Children's Specialty Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.,College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzȩbiec, Poland
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