Jude Dzevela Kong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4465968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jude Dzevela Kong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jude Dzevela |
| FAMILY NAME | Kong |
| SIGNATURE | KONG J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7557-5672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Detecting the Presence of Covid-19 Vaccination Hesitancy From South African Twitter Data Using Machine Learning
Very few social media studies have been done on South African user-generated content during the COVID-19 pandemic and even fewer using hand-labeling over automated methods. Vaccination is a major tool in the fight against the pandemic, but vaccine hesitancy jeopardizes any public health effort. In this study, sentiment analysis on South African tweets related to vaccine hesitancy was performed, with the aim of training AI-mediated classification …
Epidemiological review on the resurgence of measles outbreaks in Canada during the post-elimination era
In 1998, the World Health Organization declared that measles had been eliminated in Canada. Despite this status, Canada continues to experience sporadic outbreaks driven by importations from endemic countries. Understanding the post-elimination outbreaks is crucial for informing prevention and control policies. The purpose of this review was to identify and analyze epidemiological factors of measles outbreaks’ resurgence in Canada. We conducted a…
Disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on socially vulnerable communities
Objective This work aims to study the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Jane and Finch community, one of the socially vulnerable neighborhoods in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada, in terms of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare services. Methodology A dataset provided by the Black Creek Community Health Centre (BCCHC), gathered from different health-related portals, covering various health statistics during C…
Significance of the Arima epidemiological modeling to predict the rate of HIV and Aids in the Kumba Health District of Cameroon
Background: AIDS is a severe medical condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that primarily attacks the immune system, specifically CD4+ T lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell crucial for immune response), monocyte macrophages, and dendritic cells. This disease has significant health and socio-economic implications and is one of the primary causes of illness and death globally (UNAIDS, 2022). It presents significant challeng…
Risk factors associated with human Mpox infection
Understanding cholera dynamics in African countries with persistent outbreaks
This study highlights the drivers of cholera outbreaks across African countries, emphasizing the need for tailored interventions that consider underlying socio-demographic and environmental vulnerabilities. The findings underscore the importance of integrating data-driven approaches into cholera preparedness and response efforts to mitigate its impact
The impact of digital literacy and internet usage on health behaviors and decision-making in Arab Mena countries
Vaccine Hesitancy Hotspots in Africa
Many social media users express concerns about vaccines and their side effects on Twitter. These concerns lead to a compromise of confidence which brings about vaccine hesitancy. In Africa, vaccine hesitancy is a major challenge faced by health policymakers in the fight against COVID-19. Given that most tweets are geotagged, clustering them according to their sentiments could help identify locations that may likely experience vaccine hesitancy fo…
The determinants of Covid-19 case reporting across Africa
Background: According to study on the under-estimation of COVID-19 cases in African countries, the average daily case reporting rate was only 5.37% in the initial phase of the outbreak when there was little or no control measures. In this work, we aimed to identify the determinants of the case reporting and classify the African countries using the case reporting rates and the significant determinants. Methods: We used the COVID-19 daily case repo…
Using an innovative family-centered evidence toolkit to improve the livelihood of people with disabilities in Bamenda (Cameroon)
Background Most of the disability-related scholarly literature focuses on high-income countries, whereas there is a lack of data concerning challenges (barriers and obstacles) and opportunities (participatory research and community engagement) in the Global South. Moreover, many frameworks for interventions for people with disabilities (PWDs) have been designed for resource-rich contexts, and little is known about their translatability to low- an…
Impact assessment of self-medication on Covid-19 prevalence in Gauteng, South Africa, using an age-structured disease transmission modelling framework
Studies aiming to understand the dynamics of diseases in areas prone to self-medication should account for this practice. There is a need for a campaign against COVID-19-related self-medication, specifically targeting the active population (ages 15-64)
Covid-19 in Ontario Long-term Care Facilities Project, a manually curated and validated database
DATA REPORT article Front. Public Health, 10 February 2023Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1133419
Global Health Mentorship
Nowcasting unemployment rate during the Covid-19 pandemic using Twitter data
The global economy has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries are experiencing a severe and destructive recession. A significant number of firms and businesses have gone bankrupt or been scaled down, and many individuals have lost their jobs. The main goal of this study is to support policy- and decision-makers with additional and real-time information about the labor market flow using Twitter data. We leverage the data to trace a…
Planetary sleep medicine
Circadian rhythms are a series of endogenous autonomous oscillators that are generated by the molecular circadian clock which coordinates and synchronizes internal time with the external environment in a 24-h daily cycle (that can also be shorter or longer than 24 h). Besides daily rhythms, there exist as well other biological rhythms that have different time scales, including seasonal and annual rhythms. Circadian and other biological rhythms de…
Public sentiments toward Covid-19 vaccines in South African cities
Amidst the COVID-19 vaccination, Twitter is one of the most popular platforms for discussions about the COVID-19 vaccination. These types of discussions most times lead to a compromise of public confidence toward the vaccine. The text-based data generated by these discussions are used by researchers to extract topics and perform sentiment analysis at the provincial, country, or continent level without considering the local communities. The aim of…
Dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions and community support measures across Canadian universities and colleges during Covid-19 in 2020
DATA REPORT article Front. Public Health, 17 November 2022Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1066654
Health Effects of Metabolic Risks in the United States From 1990 to 2019
INTRODUCTION: Metabolic risks including high body mass index, high fasting plasma glucose, high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high systolic blood pressure, kidney dysfunction and low bone mineral density, contribute heavy burden to the US health systems. We aimed to investigate the burden attributable to metabolic risks in the US from 1990 to 2019. METHODS: Using methodology of Global Burden of Disease Study, the deaths and DALYs attributa…
Management of hospital beds and ventilators in the Gauteng province, South Africa, during the Covid-19 pandemic
We conducted an observational retrospective study on patients hospitalized with COVID-19, during March 05, 2020, to October 28, 2021, and developed an agent-based model to evaluate effectiveness of recommended healthcare resources (hospital beds and ventilators) management strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Gauteng, South Africa. We measured the effectiveness of these strategies by calculating the number of deaths prevented by implementin…
Latent Profile Analysis to Survey Positive Mental Health and Well-Being
Our results complement person-centered studies (LPA/LCA) related to the COVID-19 pandemic and can serve researchers and mental health practitioners in both diagnostic and intervention phases for the public. In addition, the GQ6 scale is a valid and reliable tool that can be administered to measure gratitude for culturally similar populations
The Determinants of the Low Covid-19 Transmission and Mortality Rates in Africa
Background: More than 1 year after the beginning of the international spread of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), the reasons explaining its apparently lower reported burden in Africa are still to be fully elucidated. Few studies previously investigated the potential reasons explaining this epidemiological observation using data at the level of a few African countries. However, an updated analysis considering the various epidemiological waves and vari…
Regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease in Canada during 2005–2016
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study is to examine the temporal trends and patterns of regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Canada during 2005-2016. METHODS: A total of 670 000 adults aged ≥20 years who participated in the Canadian Community Health Surveys between 2005 and 2016 were enrolled for this study. CVD referred to heart disease and stroke in this study. Equivalised household income was used as a …
Illicit Drug Use in Canada and Implications for Suicidal Behaviors, and Household Food Insecurity
Background and Aims : Illicit drug use is an ongoing health and social issue in Canada. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of illicit drug use and its implications for suicidal behaviors, and household food insecurity in Canada. Design : Cross-sectional population survey. Setting : Canada, using the 2015-2016 Canadian Community Health Survey, a nationally representative sample selected by stratified multi-stage probability sampling. P…
Covid-19 Pandemic Related Research in Africa
Scientometrics enables scholars to assess and visualize emerging research trends and hot-spots in the scientific literature from a quantitative standpoint. In the last decades, Africa has nearly doubled its absolute count of scholarly output, even though its share in global knowledge production has dramatically decreased. The still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the way scholarly research is conducted, published, and disseminat…
Development of an Early Alert System for an Additional Wave of Covid-19 Cases Using a Recurrent Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory
The impact of the still ongoing "Coronavirus Disease 2019" (COVID-19) pandemic has been and is still vast, affecting not only global human health and stretching healthcare facilities, but also profoundly disrupting societal and economic systems worldwide. The nature of the way the virus spreads causes cases to come in further recurring waves. This is due a complex array of biological, societal and environmental factors, including the novel nature…
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The Determinants of the Low Covid-19 Transmission and Mortality Rates in Africa
Background: More than 1 year after the beginning of the international spread of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), the reasons explaining its apparently lower reported burden in Africa are still to be fully elucidated. Few studies previously investigated the potential reasons explaining this epidemiological observation using data at the level of a few African countries. However, an updated analysis considering the various epidemiological waves and vari…
Regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease in Canada during 2005–2016
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study is to examine the temporal trends and patterns of regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Canada during 2005-2016. METHODS: A total of 670 000 adults aged ≥20 years who participated in the Canadian Community Health Surveys between 2005 and 2016 were enrolled for this study. CVD referred to heart disease and stroke in this study. Equivalised household income was used as a …
Illicit Drug Use in Canada and Implications for Suicidal Behaviors, and Household Food Insecurity
Background and Aims : Illicit drug use is an ongoing health and social issue in Canada. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of illicit drug use and its implications for suicidal behaviors, and household food insecurity in Canada. Design : Cross-sectional population survey. Setting : Canada, using the 2015-2016 Canadian Community Health Survey, a nationally representative sample selected by stratified multi-stage probability sampling. P…
Covid-19 Pandemic Related Research in Africa
Scientometrics enables scholars to assess and visualize emerging research trends and hot-spots in the scientific literature from a quantitative standpoint. In the last decades, Africa has nearly doubled its absolute count of scholarly output, even though its share in global knowledge production has dramatically decreased. The still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the way scholarly research is conducted, published, and disseminat…
Development of an Early Alert System for an Additional Wave of Covid-19 Cases Using a Recurrent Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory
The impact of the still ongoing "Coronavirus Disease 2019" (COVID-19) pandemic has been and is still vast, affecting not only global human health and stretching healthcare facilities, but also profoundly disrupting societal and economic systems worldwide. The nature of the way the virus spreads causes cases to come in further recurring waves. This is due a complex array of biological, societal and environmental factors, including the novel nature…
Nowcasting unemployment rate during the Covid-19 pandemic using Twitter data
The global economy has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries are experiencing a severe and destructive recession. A significant number of firms and businesses have gone bankrupt or been scaled down, and many individuals have lost their jobs. The main goal of this study is to support policy- and decision-makers with additional and real-time information about the labor market flow using Twitter data. We leverage the data to trace a…
Planetary sleep medicine
Circadian rhythms are a series of endogenous autonomous oscillators that are generated by the molecular circadian clock which coordinates and synchronizes internal time with the external environment in a 24-h daily cycle (that can also be shorter or longer than 24 h). Besides daily rhythms, there exist as well other biological rhythms that have different time scales, including seasonal and annual rhythms. Circadian and other biological rhythms de…
Public sentiments toward Covid-19 vaccines in South African cities
Amidst the COVID-19 vaccination, Twitter is one of the most popular platforms for discussions about the COVID-19 vaccination. These types of discussions most times lead to a compromise of public confidence toward the vaccine. The text-based data generated by these discussions are used by researchers to extract topics and perform sentiment analysis at the provincial, country, or continent level without considering the local communities. The aim of…
Dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions and community support measures across Canadian universities and colleges during Covid-19 in 2020
DATA REPORT article Front. Public Health, 17 November 2022Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1066654
Health Effects of Metabolic Risks in the United States From 1990 to 2019
INTRODUCTION: Metabolic risks including high body mass index, high fasting plasma glucose, high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high systolic blood pressure, kidney dysfunction and low bone mineral density, contribute heavy burden to the US health systems. We aimed to investigate the burden attributable to metabolic risks in the US from 1990 to 2019. METHODS: Using methodology of Global Burden of Disease Study, the deaths and DALYs attributa…
Management of hospital beds and ventilators in the Gauteng province, South Africa, during the Covid-19 pandemic
We conducted an observational retrospective study on patients hospitalized with COVID-19, during March 05, 2020, to October 28, 2021, and developed an agent-based model to evaluate effectiveness of recommended healthcare resources (hospital beds and ventilators) management strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Gauteng, South Africa. We measured the effectiveness of these strategies by calculating the number of deaths prevented by implementin…
Latent Profile Analysis to Survey Positive Mental Health and Well-Being
Our results complement person-centered studies (LPA/LCA) related to the COVID-19 pandemic and can serve researchers and mental health practitioners in both diagnostic and intervention phases for the public. In addition, the GQ6 scale is a valid and reliable tool that can be administered to measure gratitude for culturally similar populations
Covid-19 in Ontario Long-term Care Facilities Project, a manually curated and validated database
DATA REPORT article Front. Public Health, 10 February 2023Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1133419
Global Health Mentorship
Vaccine Hesitancy Hotspots in Africa
Many social media users express concerns about vaccines and their side effects on Twitter. These concerns lead to a compromise of confidence which brings about vaccine hesitancy. In Africa, vaccine hesitancy is a major challenge faced by health policymakers in the fight against COVID-19. Given that most tweets are geotagged, clustering them according to their sentiments could help identify locations that may likely experience vaccine hesitancy fo…
The determinants of Covid-19 case reporting across Africa
Background: According to study on the under-estimation of COVID-19 cases in African countries, the average daily case reporting rate was only 5.37% in the initial phase of the outbreak when there was little or no control measures. In this work, we aimed to identify the determinants of the case reporting and classify the African countries using the case reporting rates and the significant determinants. Methods: We used the COVID-19 daily case repo…
Using an innovative family-centered evidence toolkit to improve the livelihood of people with disabilities in Bamenda (Cameroon)
Background Most of the disability-related scholarly literature focuses on high-income countries, whereas there is a lack of data concerning challenges (barriers and obstacles) and opportunities (participatory research and community engagement) in the Global South. Moreover, many frameworks for interventions for people with disabilities (PWDs) have been designed for resource-rich contexts, and little is known about their translatability to low- an…
Impact assessment of self-medication on Covid-19 prevalence in Gauteng, South Africa, using an age-structured disease transmission modelling framework
Studies aiming to understand the dynamics of diseases in areas prone to self-medication should account for this practice. There is a need for a campaign against COVID-19-related self-medication, specifically targeting the active population (ages 15-64)
Disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on socially vulnerable communities
Objective This work aims to study the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Jane and Finch community, one of the socially vulnerable neighborhoods in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada, in terms of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare services. Methodology A dataset provided by the Black Creek Community Health Centre (BCCHC), gathered from different health-related portals, covering various health statistics during C…
Significance of the Arima epidemiological modeling to predict the rate of HIV and Aids in the Kumba Health District of Cameroon
Background: AIDS is a severe medical condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that primarily attacks the immune system, specifically CD4+ T lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell crucial for immune response), monocyte macrophages, and dendritic cells. This disease has significant health and socio-economic implications and is one of the primary causes of illness and death globally (UNAIDS, 2022). It presents significant challeng…
Risk factors associated with human Mpox infection
Understanding cholera dynamics in African countries with persistent outbreaks
This study highlights the drivers of cholera outbreaks across African countries, emphasizing the need for tailored interventions that consider underlying socio-demographic and environmental vulnerabilities. The findings underscore the importance of integrating data-driven approaches into cholera preparedness and response efforts to mitigate its impact
The impact of digital literacy and internet usage on health behaviors and decision-making in Arab Mena countries
Detecting the Presence of Covid-19 Vaccination Hesitancy From South African Twitter Data Using Machine Learning
Very few social media studies have been done on South African user-generated content during the COVID-19 pandemic and even fewer using hand-labeling over automated methods. Vaccination is a major tool in the fight against the pandemic, but vaccine hesitancy jeopardizes any public health effort. In this study, sentiment analysis on South African tweets related to vaccine hesitancy was performed, with the aim of training AI-mediated classification …
Epidemiological review on the resurgence of measles outbreaks in Canada during the post-elimination era
In 1998, the World Health Organization declared that measles had been eliminated in Canada. Despite this status, Canada continues to experience sporadic outbreaks driven by importations from endemic countries. Understanding the post-elimination outbreaks is crucial for informing prevention and control policies. The purpose of this review was to identify and analyze epidemiological factors of measles outbreaks’ resurgence in Canada. We conducted a…
Medicine (19 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (9 works) · Public health (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Pandemic (7 works) · Virology (7 works) · Disease (6 works)