International Air Travel to Ohio, USA, and the Impact on Malaria, Influenza, and Hepatitis A

Brannen, Donald E.; Alhammad, Ali; Branum, Melissa; Schmitt, Amy

doi:10.1155/2016/8258946

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“…27 In our interconnected world, infectious diseases can spread quickly. 28 Assuring that the effects on the body and the mind are addressed will be increasingly important. After controlling for historical diagnoses and the rate of COVID -19 in the community, the effect of pandemic -induced social isolation had a linear increase in the amount of anxiety, resulting in a 4-fold increase in pandemic social isolation -induced anxiety.…”

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Pandemic Isolation and Mental Health Among Children

Brannen

Wynn

Shuster

et al. 2023

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: Mental health issues increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among children. Our past research efforts found that surveillance data can address a variety of health concerns; that personal psychological awareness impacted ability to cope, and mental health outcomes were improved when survivors were triaged to mental health countermeasures. To build upon our public health efforts we wanted to see if increased screen time due to remote learning caused by the pandemic influenced school aged children’s mental health. Methods: With the hypothesis that excessive time spent isolated during remote learning increased the amount of mental health events in children, we conducted a public health surveillance project on actual diagnoses rather than just symptoms, controlling for historical mental health and emotional disorders. Results: The entire cohort of children ages 6 to 17 years were studied over time before and during the pandemic for their medically diagnosed mental health and emotional outcomes by the amount of pandemic induced social isolation. Conclusions: After controlling for historical diagnoses and the rate of COVID-19, the effect of pandemic induced social isolation had a linear increase on the amount of anxiety, resulting in a four-fold increase in pandemic social isolation-induced anxiety.

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Pandemic Isolation and Mental Health Among Children

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Wynn

Shuster

et al. 2023

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“…This brings significant challenges for measures to minimise the spread of infectious diseases and to prevent and control infectious diseases outbreaks. Passengers are vectors for the spread of infectious issues, with well-documented cases of inflight and post-flight transmission of influenza [50], measles [51], meningococcal infections [52] and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis [53] among several other infectious agents [44,54]. Air travel has been a facilitator of the emergence or re-emergence of once eradicated infectious agents.…”

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Global commercial passenger airlines and travel health information regarding infection control and the prevention of infectious disease: What's in a website?

Shaban

Sotomayor-Castillo

Malik

et al. 2020

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

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A B S T R A C TBackground: Air travel has never been easier, cheaper or faster, with large volumes of people travelling around the world. These factors increase the risk of the spread of infectious diseases by air travel. Little is known, however, about the extent to which airlines provide information to passengers on infection control and measures to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This study examined the websites of the global commercial passenger airlines to see if they contained information about infection control and prevention of infectious diseases and appraised the clinical usefulness of that information. Method: A cross-sectional text-based analysis of the 73 airline websites from the six global commercial passenger airline conglomerates was performed to identify information about infection control and prevention of infectious between July and August 2019. Results: Of the 73 airline websites, less than half (n = 35, 28.6%) contained information deemed useful for passengers. While there was a range of general health advice within the websites, there was limited information about infection control and preventing infectious diseases. A minority of websites contained information about vaccination status prior to travel, and to a lesser extent handwashing and hand hygiene, with very few including disease-specific advice or preventive measures. Conclusions: Airline websites are an underutilised source of information for infection control and the prevention of infectious diseases. Providing passengers with information on basic infection control and prevention measures may support the global efforts against the spread of infectious diseases.

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“…United States Department of Transport 14 [15,20,54,[62][63][64][65]84,97,100,112,115,133,148] Australian Department of Transport 2 [18,19] Australian International Airport Traffic 4 [15,[18][19][20] Brazilian Ministry of Tourism 1 [126] Department 18-20,48,87,90,94,97,114,119,127,143] among other criteria. An additional complication is that customers of the same data provider may receive different data depending on the timing, exact parameters of their database query and their subscription levels.…”

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The use and reporting of airline passenger data for infectious disease modelling: a systematic review

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Background A variety of airline passenger data sources are used for modelling the international spread of infectious diseases. Questions exist regarding the suitability and validity of these sources. Aim We conducted a systematic review to identify the sources of airline passenger data used for these purposes and to assess validation of the data and reproducibility of the methodology. Methods Articles matching our search criteria and describing a model of the international spread of human infectious disease, parameterised with airline passenger data, were identified. Information regarding type and source of airline passenger data used was collated and the studies’ reproducibility assessed. Results We identified 136 articles. The majority (n = 96) sourced data primarily used by the airline industry. Governmental data sources were used in 30 studies and data published by individual airports in four studies. Validation of passenger data was conducted in only seven studies. No study was found to be fully reproducible, although eight were partially reproducible. Limitations By limiting the articles to international spread, articles focussed on within-country transmission even if they used relevant data sources were excluded. Authors were not contacted to clarify their methods. Searches were limited to articles in PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus. Conclusion We recommend greater efforts to assess validity and biases of airline passenger data used for modelling studies, particularly when model outputs are to inform national and international public health policies. We also recommend improving reporting standards and more detailed studies on biases in commercial and open-access data to assess their reproducibility.

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International Air Travel to Ohio, USA, and the Impact on Malaria, Influenza, and Hepatitis A

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Pandemic Isolation and Mental Health Among Children

Pandemic Isolation and Mental Health Among Children

Global commercial passenger airlines and travel health information regarding infection control and the prevention of infectious disease: What's in a website?

The use and reporting of airline passenger data for infectious disease modelling: a systematic review

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