Leveraging media and health communication strategies to overcome the COVID-19 infodemic
By Nour Mheidly, Jawad Fares. Journal of Public Health Policy, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a complementary infodemic, whereby various outlets and digital media portals shared false information and unsourced recommendations on health. In addition, journals and authors published a mass of academic articles at a speed that suggests a non-existent or a non-rigorous peer review process. Such lapses can promote false information and adoption of health policies based on misleading data. Reliable information is vital for designing and implementing preventive measures and promoting health awareness in the fight against COVID-19. In the age of social media, information travels wide and fast, emphasizing a need for accurate data to be corroborated swiftly and for preventing misleading information from wide dissemination. Here, we discuss the implications of the COVID-19 infodemic and explore practical ways to leverage health communication strategies to overcome it. We propose the “Infodemic Response Checklist” as a comprehensive tool to overcome the challenges posed by the current and any future infodemics.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Health, Sociology and Political Science
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- Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review (2021, background): “For example, researchers suggested health institutions increase efforts to monitor and enforce fact-checking of dubious information on social media [36,37], promote strategic and timely refutation to misinformation on social media [38], share personal experiences on social media to refute rumors [39”
- Global Challenges to Public Health Care Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Pandemic Measures and Problems (2022, background): “Ineffective communication of facts and misrepresentation of information caused panic, instability, and mistrust in health care systems [123].”