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Dr. Jean H. Kim

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JC School of Public Health & Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: lifestyle health risk factors associated with globalization; workplace well-being in contemporary society; changing patterns of alcohol consumption; economic migration and changing patterns of family

Dr. Paul K. M. Poon

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JC School of Public Health & Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: infectious disease epidemiology; vaccine hesitancy; health literacy; cancer screening; sarcopenia and cognitive impairment; hypertension

Dr. Kevin K. C. Hung

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JC School of Public Health & Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: emergency medicine; major trauma; health emergency and disaster risk management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the past two decades, the increasing pace of globalization has led to changes in the daily lives of humans across the world. Traditional borders have eroded over time, leading to the widespread diffusion of media, human populations, and economies for which the full impact is yet to be realized.

The emerging health issues that result from greater international trade, increased internationalization of work, urbanization, and increase in borderless digital media, requires scholarly examination.

Studies addressing topics related to emerging health issues related to large-scale global trends, such as the effects of global mass media on health, the effects of changing patterns of resource use, changing dietary patterns, changing work patterns, changing patterns of family life, the uptake of non-traditional behaviors, and cross-boundary control of health conditions, are solicited for this Special Issue. Studies addressing, but not limited to, these topics are invited for submission to this Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). New quantitative and qualitative research papers, methodological papers, brief reports, reviews, and commentaries are also welcome. Studies examining the new approaches utilized to address health problems resulting from globalization are also invited for submission.

Dr. Jean H. Kim
Dr. Paul K. M. Poon
Dr. Kevin K. C. Hung
Guest Editors

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Keywords

globalization
urbanization
cross-boundary
lifestyle
health behaviors
mass media
migration
diet
family
work

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Research

17 pages, 739 KiB

Open AccessArticle

Social Outbreak in Chile, and Its Association with the Effects Biological, Psychological, Social, and Quality of Life

by Solange Parra-Soto, Samuel Duran-Aguero, Francisco Vargas-Silva, Katherine Vázquez-Morales and Rafael Pizarro-Mena

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(23), 7096; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20237096 - 22 Nov 2023

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Abstract

The World Health Organization has defined collective violence as the instrumental use of violence by people who identify themselves as members of a group against other individuals and have political, economic, or social objectives. In Chile, the “Social Outbreak” was used to describe an episode of collective violence, which began on October 18, 2019, triggered by a multitude of socioeconomic and political factors, with protests and mobilizations in the country’s large and small cities; in central, commercial, and residential areas, that lasted for several months, affecting a large part of the population. The objective of the present study was to associate the social outbreak in Chile with its biological, psychological, and social effects on people’s health and quality of life, as well as its characteristics in terms of exposure, proximity, type, and frequency. This was a cross-sectional study with non-probabilistic national-level sampling, conducted from 28 November 2019, to 3 March 2020. The instrument had four sections. A total of 2651 participants answered the survey; 70.8% were female, and the mean age was 35.2. The main disturbances perceived were protests (70.9%), alarm sounds (68.1%), shooting sounds (59.0%), and tear gas bombs (56.9%). When quantifying the magnitude of these associations, people who had a medium exposure have a higher probability (OR: 1.99, CI: 1.58; 2.50) of suffering three or more biological effects than people that have a low exposure, while people with higher exposition have a 4.09 times higher probability (CI: 3.11; 5.38). A similar pattern was observed regarding psychological effects, although social effects were primarily experienced by those with high exposure. Social networks, TV, and radio were the most used media among people who perceived a greater effect. People who lived, worked, or shopped near the disturbance’s areas show a higher proportion negative effect. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Health Issues Related to Globalization)

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