Not Just Dance Moves: TikTok, Snapchat and other teen faves are essential spaces for social connection and self expression
TikTok isn’t only useful for practical health information—although doctors and nurses have been showing off some killer moves over the past few weeks, and reaching teenagers who might otherwise be missed by the UK government’s lacking communication strategy. It is also providing a sense of community, something that is more and more important as the possibility of lockdown looms longer, and digital spaces shift from being a secondary aspect of our social lives, to being a an essential space for maintaining social connections. For teenagers, this is particularly important.
Read more: https://www.media-diversity.org/not-just-dance-moves-tiktok-snapchat-and-other-teen-faves-are-essential-spaces-for-social-connection-and-self-expression/?fbclid=IwAR3MEiWXLHu2n8Lyj19EFtaD65cD9_PM5Yy9_6INr0rT8Y71Vp88ayYKGp0
Covid-19 in low-income countries – we need rapid learning about effective handwashing initiatives
Frequent and proper handwashing with soap is one of the most important measures that can be used to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, along with physical distancing, avoiding touching one’s face (eyes, nose and mouth) and practising good respiratory hygiene. However, like physical distancing measures, frequent handwashing with soap and water is next to impossible for huge swathes of the global population.
Read more: https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/covid-19-in-low-income-countries-we-need-rapid-learning-about-effective-handwashing-initiatives/
Slowing down the covid-19 outbreak: changing behaviour by understanding it
Changing behaviour is not easy. However, there are many strategies to help people change behaviour that focus on increasing motivation, capability and/or opportunity to perform the behaviours. Here we focus on strategies that improve motivation or capability.
Read more: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/11/slowing-down-the-covid-19-outbreak-changing-behaviour-by-understanding-it/
LSE: Responses to COVID-19 must focus on communities and not just past epidemics
In the current global pandemic, there is a lot that can be learned from past epidemics. What is poignantly missing, however, is acknowledgement of local perspectives to disease outbreak and response. Jeremy Allouche and Dienedort Wandji argue we need to better understand how individuals and local communities in Africa, and beyond, have learnt and developed social, cultural and institutional mechanisms to deal with protracted crises.
Read more: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2020/04/06/responses-lessons-covid19-ebola-focus-on-communities-epidemics/
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