In the Digital Era, Is Community Outrage a Feasible Proxy Indicator of Emotional Epidemiology? The Case of Meningococcal Disease in Sardinia, Italy

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Marco DettoriPaolo Castiglia

Abstract

The aims of this study were (i) to evaluate the relationship between official data on invasive meningococcal disease cases in Sardinia and the reporting of the cases by a regional online newspaper and (ii) to identify indicators useful for understanding the community outrage related to health events. Cases of meningococcal disease, selected from articles published between 1999 and 2016 on a regional newspaper database, were compared to those reported to the Infectious Disease Information Service. In order to evaluate the equality of the two distribution records, the Kolgomorov Smirnov test for two samples was applied. A community outrage indicator was obtained by calculating the number of published articles for each case of meningococcal disease identified. The outrage indicator was evaluated in comparison with other phenomena: drinking water supply limitation and domestic accidents. Overall, 2724 articles on meningitis/sepsis referring to 89 cases related to meningococcal disease were considered. Significant differences between the distribution of cases officially reported and those found in the newspaper (combined K-S = 0.39; p = 0.08) were not observed. The meningococcal disease outrage indicator showed an average of seven i...Continue Reading

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Feb 27, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Sonia Ruiz de AzuaAna Gonzalez-Pinto
May 2, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Martina BarchittaAntonella Agodi
Mar 19, 2020·Journal of Environmental and Public Health·Marco DettoriPaolo Castiglia
May 8, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Antonella ArghittuPaolo Castiglia
Jul 10, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Marco DettoriPaolo Castiglia
Jan 8, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Giovanni GabuttiArmando Stefanati
Feb 7, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Davide GentiliSandro Cinquetti
Mar 23, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Marco DettoriPaolo Castiglia
Jun 3, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Antonella ArghittuPaolo Castiglia
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