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Report 3, published 19 July 2021. Fully open-access.We conducted a nationally representative online survey in Ghana (N = 1295) throughout June 2021.In our analyses, we operationalised vaccine hesitancy as respondents who answered ‘no’ and ‘I don’t know’ to the question: “When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available to you, would you like to get vaccinated?” Some top-level findings to share - willingness to vaccinate dropped from 82% in March, to 71% in June 2021 - Therefore, to phrase another way, there was an observed and significant increase in hesitancy, from 18% to 29% across this time period. - 32% of respondents reported that they had recently seen or heard stories about the indecision surrounding the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine rollout in Europe and North America. Of this 32% subgroup, 62.0% of them indicated that these stories made them feel worried about accepting the COVID-19 vaccine in the future. - our main predictors of hesitancy continue to include: i) education (more educated people were more likely to be hesitant; one hypothesis is perhaps more likely to have greater access to the internet and thus availability of misinformation via social media); ii) females more hesitant than males; and iii) political allegiance (voting for the opposition parties was greater predictor of hesitancy). We hope that this information can be helpful with informing the health promotion efforts from the GHS, Ministry of Health and other stakeholders. For the previous report from this series of Ghana surveys (covering surveys in August 2020 and March 2021), see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351327020_Examining_drivers_of_COVID-19_vaccine_hesitancy_in_Ghana

This module aims to explore Digital Contact Tracing (D-CT) developed and implemented in South Africa for the COVID-19 response. Focus is on their D-CT app, COVID Alert SA, and understanding user-uptake. The case study begins with a brief overview of the country’s overall response to COVID-19 and the impact of the virus on the country. Following, we explain South Africa’s app by describing, how it emerged, how it is designed and functions, how users engage with the app across the whole user-engagement process, and what user-uptake looks like in the country. The next section describes the main factors that emerged in our research for this country that suggest influencing user-uptake within the country’s context including communications & misinformation, accessibility & inclusion, public trust, and response infrastructure. This section ends with a brief conclusion

O objetivo deste estudo foi aplicar a metodologia de análise e solução de problemas em uma empresa de educação que atende crianças como suporte na solução de problemas durante a pandemia do novo coronavírus. Para isso, um estudo de caso foi realizado aplicando as etapas de identificação, observação, análise do problema, plano de ação, ação, verificação, padronização e conclusão, que perfazem um ciclo da metodologia. Esse ciclo foi aplicado sete vezes ao longo deste estudo de modo a mitigar os problemas que foram surgindo. Foi escolhida uma escola particular que atende crianças com idade inferior a 10 anos e superior a 2 anos situada na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte. Em conclusão, o estudo auxiliou na melhora da relação entre a escola e família durante o período pandêmico, na implantação e no fornecimento das atividades de aperfeiçoamento pedagógico e das aulas on-line acessíveis aos alunos, na precificação das mensalidades, no sistema de avaliação, na organização dos planos de aulas de acordo com a exigência da Secretaria de Educação, no processo de matrícula e nas adequações para o possível retorno das aulas presenciais.

El objetivo es proporcionar a los miembros de la Comisión de Empleo y Asuntos Sociales (EMPL) un análisis del impacto de la crisis del COVID-19 en los jóvenes, proporcionando información actualizada sobre su situación económica y social, con un enfoque sobre el empleo. ESP

Educational Data Analytics (EDA) have been attributed with significant benefits for enhancing on-demand personalized educational support of individual learners as well as reflective course (re)design for achieving more authentic teaching, learning and assessment experiences integrated into real work-oriented tasks. This open access textbook is a tutorial for developing, practicing and self-assessing core competences on educational data analytics for digital teaching and learning. It combines theoretical knowledge on core issues related to collecting, analyzing, interpreting and using educational data, including ethics and privacy concerns. The textbook provides questions and teaching materials/ learning activities as quiz tests of multiple types of questions, added after each section, related to the topic studied or the video(s) referenced. These activities reproduce real-life contexts by using a suitable use case scenario (storytelling), encouraging learners to link theory with practice; self-assessed assignments enabling learners to apply their attained knowledge and acquired competences on EDL. By studying this book, you will know where to locate useful educational data in different sources and understand their limitations; know the basics for managing educational data to make them useful; understand relevant methods; and be able to use relevant tools; know the basics for organising, analysing, interpreting and presenting learner-generated data within their learning context, understand relevant learning analytics methods and be able to use relevant learning analytics tools; know the basics for analysing and interpreting educational data to facilitate educational decision making, including course and curricula design, understand relevant teaching analytics methods and be able to use relevant teaching analytics tools; understand issues related with educational data ethics and privacy. This book is intended for school leaders and teachers engaged in blended (using the flipped classroom model) and online (during COVID-19 crisis and beyond) teaching and learning; e-learning professionals (such as, instructional designers and e-tutors) of online and blended courses; instructional technologists; researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate university students studying education, educational technology and relevant fields.

La pandémie de COVID-19 a frappé la Turquie à partir du mois de mars. Le gouvernement turc a suivi peu ou prou la même stratégie adoptée par la plupart des gouvernements européens. D’une part, des mesures de confinement ont été introduites à partir du mois d’avril et d’autre part, diverses mesures de soutien telles qu’ajournement d’impôts, transferts de revenus aux ménages pauvres, garanties publiques au crédit bancaire, subventions salariales aux travailleurs en chômage partiel ont été lancées pour amortir les effets du choc sur les revenus et l’emploi. En mai, Le gouvernement turc a même interdit aux employeurs de licencier leurs employés tout en leur accordant le droit de les mettre en congé sans solde. Ces diverses mesures ont pu certainement limiter la contraction du PIB au deuxième semestre mais une contraction tout de même sévère a provoqué la perte de 2 millions d’emplois. Le taux de chômage déjà élevé à la veille de la pandémie (14,8 %) a fait un bond appréciable (à 16,5 %) mais en fait le niveau atteint par le chômage officiel a été largement sous-estimé dans la mesure où le nombre de chômeurs n’a augmenté que de 155 000 ; cela sans compter plus d’un million de travailleurs, officiellement en emploi mais sans travail.

El COVID-19 está generando cambios en distintos ámbitos de la sociedad (político, económico, cultural,...), y por ende, en las diferentes facetas de nuestra cotidianidad (familiar, laboral, académico,...). De ahí, que este momento resulte estratégico para reflexionar desde múltiples perspectivas del conocimiento científico sobre tales cambios provocados por la crisis sanitaria de esta pandemia. Estas transformaciones están siendo progresivas, puesto que transitamos desde una coyuntura de circunstancias extraordinarias e imprevistas hacia la “nueva normalidad” que informa el Gobierno de España, aunque algunos preferimos una próxima realidad. Una próxima realidad a construir entre todos y todas que pueda modificar aquellos aspectos excluyentes y divergentes que hasta ahora formaban parte de los escenarios sociales donde realizamos nuestro día a día. En ese proceso de transición iniciado hace dos meses, motivado por la aparición de este nuevo Coronavirus, se contemplan diversos contextos en los entornos locales y global, que podría definirse como la era PosCOVOD-19. Un nuevo tiempo que podría suponer una rehumanización que mejorase nuestra forma de entender la propia vida compartida con otras especies animales, fauna y flora, en aras dignificar las condiciones de miles de millones de habitantes en el planeta Tierra. Una nueva oportunidad de cambios sociales desde una renovada escala de valores y actitudes que nos beneficie como personas en este periodo histórico que inauguramos. Reinventarse sería la acción individual más relevante, que represente la innovación en las formas de vida y cultura más significativas para el ser humano. Quizás sean palabras de un optimismo vital excesivo a tenor de los últimos acontecimientos de la historia de la humanidad, pero se trataría inteligentemente de prevenirnos de posibles catástrofes naturales, muchas de las cuales la mano humana es responsable de las mismas pérdidas materiales y vidas humanas. Por tanto, está en nuestras cabezas la opción de frenar tantos desastres con consecuencias fatales, más letales que el mismo COVID-19.

Fil: Uthurralt, Ronald. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones; Argentina Fil: Uthurralt, Ronald. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Resumen: El propósito de este trabajo es aportar conocimiento acerca del universo de los practicantes del running en Argentina a partir de datos cuantitativos, como complemento del creciente corpus de estudios cualitativos que enriquecen la comprensión de este fenómeno social. Para ello hicimos hincapié en la caracterización y descripción de los corredores aficionados, el estudio de los lugares donde corren y el análisis de las motivaciones y barreras para practicar la actividad. En la realización del grueso del análisis recurrimos a la base de datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Factores de Riesgo (ENFR) de 2009, realizada en conjunto por el INDEC, el Ministerio de Salud y la Secretaría de Deportes. La ENFR 2009 incluyó −hasta el presente y por única vez− una Encuesta Nacional de Actividad Física y Deportiva (ENAFyD). Esta encuesta incluyó una serie de preguntas específicas referidas a las características que asumen los hábitos de actividad física y deportiva a nivel nacional, regional y provincial a través de las categorías de género, edad, nivel educativo e ingreso familiar, entre otros. La pandemia de COVID-19 representó indudablemente una fuerte disrupción para la actividad, por lo que las conclusiones a las que llegamos en este trabajo corresponden al periodo previo a la pandemia y su validez posterior debería evaluarse a partir de nuevos datos estadísticos.

The COVID-19 pandemic started more than a year ago, but until today, we did not have a definitive cure for this disease. The SARS-CoV-2 virus constantly mutated over time, infecting more people and causing tremendous stress on the existing scarcity of healthcare resources all around the world. Here, the experts from ground zero will share their first-hand experience of clinical trials looking for a cure for COVID-19, like the WHO's Solidarity Trial and the role of palliative care in COVID-19 as part of humanitarian crisis management. To download this eBook in other formats, please go to https://books2read.com/u/3ya9rn or https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1103401