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Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Date Submitted: Mar 22, 2020
Date Accepted: Jun 13, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Jun 16, 2020

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Mapping of Health Literacy and Social Panic Via Web Search Data During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Infodemiological Study

Xu C, Zhang X, Wang Y

Mapping of Health Literacy and Social Panic Via Web Search Data During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Infodemiological Study

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(7):e18831

DOI: 10.2196/18831

PMID: 32540844

PMCID: 7333795

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Public Health Emergency, Health Literacy and Social Panic by Mapping of COVID-19 Based on the Web Search Data

  • Chenjie Xu; 
  • Xinyu Zhang; 
  • Yaogang Wang

ABSTRACT

Abstract COVID-19, is a pneumonia caused by novel cornonavirus in 2019. As of March 17, 2020, Beijing time, 81163 cases were confirmed and 3231 cases died in China. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese public has been very concerned about it. People search and browse the COVID-2019 related information through Baidu search engine for an average of more than 1 billion people a day. Under the epidemic situation, web searches reflect the changes of prevention and control policies, and also reflect the public's health literacy in public health emergencies.


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Please cite as:

Xu C, Zhang X, Wang Y

Mapping of Health Literacy and Social Panic Via Web Search Data During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Infodemiological Study

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(7):e18831

DOI: 10.2196/18831

PMID: 32540844

PMCID: 7333795

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