Objective

To assess the process and outcomes of the implementation of an electronic fingerprint initiative as part of quality improvement in three health facilities in the Northern Department of Haiti, in terms of its acceptability, adoption, feasibility, fidelity, and sustainability. In Haiti, poor attendance of the healthcare workforce is a nationwide problem, closely related to the quality of care. Three health institutions have tried to implement an electronic fingerprint system to monitor and improve attendance.

Objectives

To map the current evidence on surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP) administration and identify knowledge gaps in the literature available in this field.

Methods

The PubMed, Cochrane Library, Epistemonikos, and Health Systems Evidence databases were searched from January 2015 to March 2020 for systematic reviews published in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Objective

To examine multiple aspects of the medicines in CARICOM procurement markets, including manufacturer headquarters location, regulatory history, and type (innovator versus generic); the proportion of World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines; and the most expensive medicines procured.

Objective

To assess the association between drinking behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine, anxiety symptoms, and sociodemographic characteristics in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Objective.

To describe the characteristics of fake news about COVID-19 disseminated in Brazil from January to June 2020.

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305729

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305922

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305901

Objective.

To report on vaccine opposition and misinformation promoted on Twitter, highlighting Twitter accounts that drive conversation.

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305854

Objectives.

To provide a comprehensive workflow to identify top influential health misinformation about Zika on Twitter in 2016, reconstruct information dissemination networks of retweeting, contrast mis- from real information on various metrics, and investigate how Zika misinformation proliferated on social media during the Zika epidemic.

Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305905