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Introduction: Monitoring the evolution of COVID-19 has been essential for health decision-making. But this requires reliable numbers of the infected, dead and hospitalized, often difficult to have for multiple reasons. The use of fast and reliable estimation techniques, such as indirect surveys, is an option. Objectives: To present the CoronaSurveys project, which monitors COVID-19 by combining indirect surveys with the Network Scaleup Method (NSUM). Methodology: The system uses indirect online anonymous surveys to inquire about COVID-19, and the NSUM method to estimate cases. The system offers multi-language surveys with questions to track active cases, new cases, and fatalities, among others. Results: CoronaSurveys has been operating since March 2020, and continues to collect data, with over one hundred responses to date (over one million samples). The system has made good estimates for Spain and the United Kingdom, among other countries. Conclusion: This system is suitable in countries with limited health infrastructure or in situations of lack of knowledge about the pandemic, such as at the beginning of COVID-19, because its implementation cost is small and it requires simple devices to use it and few participants to obtain good estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Universal literature is a source of data to know diseases through history. Aims: Encourage readers to explore diseases and improve their health through literature. Methodology: The selected text is Oliver Twist for being the best known of Charles Dickens in his English and Spanish version. All the texts related to health are analyzed and the most representative ones are chosen, as well as those that are most repeated. A comparison is also made with the situation in Spain in those years. Results: The level of development of Great Britain was much higher than that of Spain. Technology had reached the countryside, the mines and the city. The epidemics, the health system, work accidents did not have many similarities due to the backwardness suffered by Spain. Conclusion: Literature serves to raise public awareness of the importance of health. Literature should be encouraged as an instrument for the prevention of diseases, even writers who describe diseases without knowing it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes how those young Spanish people (aged between 25 and 35) with a university degree, migrated to the United Kingdom and Chile between 2010 and 2014, build their adaptive processes in both countries. These processes are complex and they depend on a range of factors, such as the skills of migrants regarding the language of the arrival country, their habituation to the climate of such country, the social position they acquire after migration, their interaction with the local population, the images they construct about their society of origin, and the level of integration in the new social spaces they access, etc.. Depending on all these factors, multiple possible adaptation paths of migrants can be configured. These paths are systematized here by means of a three-dimensional analytical model that distinguishes among nostalgic, converse and cosmopolitan ways of adaptation. Such model is used to examine how university skilled migrants construct, deconstruct and reconstruct their adaptive strategies in the UK and Chile, two different socio-economic and cultural contexts. Firstly, in the UK, the adaptive processes reveal a more versatile character, showing adaptation paths of young Spanish immigrants that are classified, respectively, as nostalgic, converse and cosmopolitan. However, those young Spanish people settled in Chile manifest greatly affected by the high degree of privatization of problems and public services existing in this country, in which it is broadly assumed that the costs of such problems and services have to be individually paid. This causes that these young migrants, faced to this very difficult situation that is so hard to understand and accept by them, develop adaptation processes mainly characterized by the nostalgia for their origin society and the idealization of the return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radio and public service are often associated with information even though music programming has been part of public radio since its beginnings. The question is that not every audiovisual corporation shares the same notion of specialized music radio. Therefore, the aim of this article is to present a first exploratory approach by comparing the modus operandi of two public radio stations: iCat.cat and BBC Radio 6 Music. Within the framework of comparative media systems studies, we focus on studying the morning shows' playlists, as the flagship program of radio prime time and spearhead of the stations' programming policies. Obviously there are cultural differences between Catalonia and United Kingdom, nonetheless, we have chosen these stations because they both have similar approaches to a thematic conception that departs from commercial formula stations and operate under a programming strategy based on the so-called indie music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]