关于政府政策对COVID-19的公众看法:六个非洲国家的比较研究
Yi-Jun Wang1, Marly Loria Diabakanga Batatana1, Maximino Horacio Bikoumou Gambat2
1School of Public Administration, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Shaanxi, 710055, China.
Heliyon
|February 6, 2024
概括
六个非洲国家的公众对COVID-19政策的看法各不相同,对推特的情绪分析揭示了对锁定和疫苗接种等措施的异质反应. 了解这些感知对于有效的公共卫生战略至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 计算机科学 计算机科学
背景情况:
- 由于COVID-19的流行,全球包括非洲的政府干预成为必要.
- 政策的有效性在很大程度上受到公众的看法和接受的影响.
- 了解公众情绪对于制定有效的公共卫生战略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 分析六个非洲国家 (尼日利亚,南非,肯尼亚,加纳,卢旺达,乌干达) 公众对COVID-19政府政策的看法.
- 利用社交媒体数据的情绪分析来衡量公众对各种政策的反应.
- 为决策者提供见解,以提高沟通和战略的有效性.
主要方法:
- 从2020年3月到2022年2月,通过Twitter API收集了134,494条与COVID-19和政府政策相关的推文.
- 使用自然语言处理 (NLP) 技术处理的推特,包括令牌化和停止词删除.
- 将推特情绪分类为积极,消极或中立,以评估公众对政策 (例如,严格性,疫苗接种) 的看法.
主要成果:
- 在研究的六个非洲国家中确定了异质的公众反应.
- 观察到与某些政策相关的负面看法,例如初始封锁和口罩授权.
- 他注意到不同的政策方法,从严格到宽松,影响了公众的情绪.
结论:
- 公众对非洲COVID-19政策的看法复杂,并因国家和政策类型而异.
- 对社交媒体的情绪分析为公众论提供了有价值的,尽管不完整的见解.
- 进一步的研究应该整合各种数据来源,并探索政策对环境等其他领域的影响.
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