School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Faculty of Health, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2023 Aug;43(8):385-391. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.8.04.
News media are an underused source of localized information on complex and structural public health issues that are neglected in policy and unaccounted for in mainstream data collection. We applied systematic review search methods to online news media and developed a dataset highlighting municipal reactions and initiatives in response to public washroom pressures during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reliance on consumer-based models of washroom access "became news" amid the closures and lockdowns. Our results showed that many municipalities were grappling with the issue, but overwhelmingly responding with temporary and pandemic-specific measures that did not address the needs of marginalized groups.
新闻媒体是一个未被充分利用的本地化信息来源，可用于报道被政策忽视和主流数据收集所忽略的复杂和结构性公共卫生问题。我们应用系统评价搜索方法对在线新闻媒体进行了搜索，并开发了一个数据集，重点介绍了在 COVID-19 大流行的第一年中，市政当局对公共洗手间压力的反应和举措。在关闭和封锁期间，依赖基于消费者的洗手间准入模式“成为了新闻”。我们的研究结果表明，许多市政府正在努力解决这个问题，但绝大多数回应都是临时的和针对大流行的措施，这些措施并没有解决边缘化群体的需求。
