Benavides Julio A, Caparrós Cristina, da Silva Ramiro Monã, Lembo Tiziana, Tem Dia Philip, Hampson Katie, Dos Santos Feliciano
Departamento de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Centro de Investigación para la Sustentabilidad, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Centro de Investigación Para la Sustentabilidad, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Nov 25;8:756152. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.756152. eCollection 2021.
Music is a powerful approach to engage communities and disseminate information. Specifically, health campaigns employing music have been used to promote behaviors that can prevent emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). For example, hip hop artists supported campaigns to prevent acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the 70s in the United States, while Brazilian funk promoted vaccination to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, we broadcast musical messages in local languages to increase community awareness and support prevention measures in Guinea and Liberia in response to the recent Ebola outbreak in 2021. Given the potential of music to promote both individual and population-level behavioral changes to prevent transmission, there is a need to consolidate information on music-based health interventions, and on how we can measure their effectiveness. In this perspective, we provide examples of relevant initiatives, discussing challenges and solutions associated with implementing interventions based on our experience with the 2021 Ebola outbreak. We recommend four steps for a successful music-based health intervention including (1) establishing a task force, (2) compose a "catchy" song including critical preventive measures, (3) deliver the song to the target audience, and (4) evaluate the campaign effectiveness. We argue that close interactions between scientists and musicians can produce rapid musical content for disease prevention. We also identify and discuss several methodological frameworks for testing the effectiveness of such interventions. We conclude that support from public health authorities, government media departments, and international agencies, is necessary to deliver wide outreach and long-term sustainability of musical messaging toward effective EID prevention.
音乐是凝聚社区和传播信息的有力途径。具体而言，利用音乐开展的健康宣传活动已被用于推广预防新发传染病（EID）的行为。例如，20世纪70年代，美国的嘻哈艺术家支持预防获得性免疫缺陷综合征的宣传活动，而巴西放克音乐则推动了疫苗接种以缓解持续的新冠疫情。同样，在2021年几内亚和利比里亚最近爆发埃博拉疫情期间，我们用当地语言播放音乐信息，以提高社区意识并支持预防措施。鉴于音乐在促进个人和群体层面行为改变以预防传播方面的潜力，有必要整合基于音乐的健康干预措施的信息，以及我们如何衡量其有效性。从这个角度出发，我们提供相关举措的实例，根据我们在2021年埃博拉疫情中的经验，讨论实施干预措施所面临的挑战和解决方案。我们推荐成功实施基于音乐的健康干预措施的四个步骤，包括（1）成立一个特别工作组，（2）创作一首包含关键预防措施的“朗朗上口”的歌曲，（3）将歌曲传达给目标受众，以及（4）评估宣传活动的效果。我们认为科学家和音乐家之间的密切互动可以迅速创作出预防疾病的音乐内容。我们还确定并讨论了几个测试此类干预措施有效性的方法框架。我们得出结论，公共卫生当局、政府媒体部门和国际机构的支持对于广泛传播音乐信息并实现其长期可持续性以有效预防新发传染病是必要的。
