Win-stay, lose-switch and public information strategies for patch fidelity of songbirds with rare extra-pair paternity

Governments around the world are utilizing data and information systems to manage the COVID-19-crisis. To obtain an overview of all these efforts, this global report presents the expert reports of 21 countries regarding the relation between the COVID-19-crisis and the information polity. A comparative analysis of these reports highlights that governments focus on strengthening six functions: management of information for crisis management, publishing public information for citizens, providing digital services to citizens, monitoring citizens in public space, facilitating information exchange between citizens and developing innovative responses to COVID-19. The comparative overview of information responses to the COVID-19-crisis shows that these responses cannot only be studied from a rational perspective on government information strategies but need to be studied as political and symbolic interventions.

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Reduction of Emergency Calls and Hospitalizations for Cardiac Causes: Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown in Tuscany Region

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine ◽

10.3389/fcvm.2021.625569 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Author(s):

Flavio D'Ascenzi ◽

Matteo Cameli ◽

Silvia Forni ◽

Fabrizio Gemmi ◽

Claudia Szasz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hospital Admissions ◽

Public Information ◽

First Trimester ◽

Medical System ◽

Maximum Difference ◽

Information Strategies ◽

Relevant Role ◽

Containment Measures ◽

Coronary Syndromes ◽

The Impact

Introduction: Containment measures were established to flatten the curve of COVID-19 contagion in order to avoid a crash of the healthcare system. However, these measures influenced the rate of hospitalization of cardiac patients. In this study, we aimed to analyse the impact of COVID-19 and the effects of lockdown measures on hospital admissions and alerts of emergency medical system (EMS) for cardiac causes in the Tuscany region.Methods: An observational, retrospective analysis from Italian Tuscany region was conducted. We evaluated consecutive patients contacting EMS or admitted to the 39 Emergency Departments (EDs) in Tuscany for cardiac causes in the first trimester of 2020. Data were compared with the same period in 2018/19.Results: The alerts of EMS for cardiac causes significantly decrease in 2020 and the highest difference between 2018/19 and 2020 was found immediately after national lockdown (Δ = −47.4%, p < 0.001). The number of admissions for chest pain in the EDs also decreased, with a maximum difference of −67.6% (p < 0.001) vs. 2018/19. The number of hospital accesses for acute coronary syndromes, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure in the EDs significantly decreased in 2020 as compared to 2018/19 (maximum Δ = −58.9%, p < 0.001; maximum Δ = −63.0%, p < 0.001; maximum Δ = −72.7%, p < 0.001, respectively).Conclusions: A significant decrease in the contacts to EMS for cardiac causes and in cardiac diagnoses was observed during the first trimester of 2020. Fear of contagion has likely played a relevant role. The lesson learnt from first wave of COVID-19 pandemic suggests that appropriate public information strategies and re-education of people are essential.

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Public information strategies: Making government information available to citizens

Information Polity ◽

10.3233/ip-2009-0167 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (1,2) ◽

pp. 31-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Albert Meijer ◽

Marcel Thaens

Keyword(s):

Public Information ◽

Government Information ◽

Information Strategies

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Enforcement and public information strategies for DWI deterrence: The Indianapolis, Indiana experience: Final report

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e485342008-001 ◽

1988 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Information ◽

Final Report ◽

Information Strategies

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Communicating with the Elderly: Reach of Television and Magazines

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1980.46.3c.1235 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 46 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1235-1242 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Richard M. Durand ◽

David L. Klemmack ◽

Lucinda L. Roff ◽

James L. Taylor

Keyword(s):

Elderly Population ◽

Public Information ◽

The Elderly ◽

Elderly Persons ◽

Advocacy Groups ◽

Governmental Agencies ◽

Service Programs ◽

Information Strategies ◽

National Probability Sample ◽

Social Service Programs

Governmental agencies, social service programs, and advocacy groups for the elderly often have messages which they would like to communicate to the largest proportion of the elderly population possible. Faced with severely limited public information budgets, they are forced to make choices about which communication mechanisms will reach the largest audience at the least cost per person receiving the message. The purpose of this study is to suggest public information strategies which might be used to communicate a message to a nationwide audience of elderly persons based on patterns of exposure to magazines and television. For this study a sample of 6,056 subjects of which 864 were elderly persons was selected on the basis of a national probability sample. Results indicate that in communicating to the elderly one must look at specific programs or magazines as opposed simply to selecting a vehicle (magazines vs television).

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Government Web Sites as Public Forums

Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-857-4.ch002 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 12-21

Author(s):

Pearson Liddell Jr. ◽

Robert S. Moore ◽

Melissa Moore ◽

William D. Eshee ◽

Gloria J. Liddell

Keyword(s):

Web Sites ◽

Communication Systems ◽

Public Information ◽

For Profit ◽

Public Managers ◽

Government Web Sites ◽

Information Strategies ◽

Public Information Systems ◽

The Government ◽

Public Forums

Public managers who are the gatekeepers regarding the informational content of communication systems have to be especially cognizant of which resources to provide on public owned systems. At times, online solutions provided by the government may involve referring citizens to for-profit firms through hyperlinks on governmentowned Web sites (Sellitto & Burgess, 2005). The inclusion of one firm over another on government Government Web Sites as Public Forums Web sites has been noted to be a real concern for public managers (Menzel, 1998). In this article, we employ a legal perspective to examine the ramifications of public information strategies that allow firms to have hyperlinks embedded within the content of public information systems. This perspective allows the public information manager to make informed decisions when developing government portal strategies.

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