A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public health event. It leads to confusion, risk-taking, and behaviors that can harm health and lead to erosion of trust in health authorities and public health responses. Owing to the global scale and high stakes of the health emergency, responding to the infodemic related to the pandemic is particularly urgent. Building on diverse research disciplines and expanding the discipline of infodemiology, more evidence-based interventions are needed to design infodemic management interventions and tools and implement them by health emergency responders.

Objective

The World Health Organization organized the first global infodemiology conferen

SUBMITTER: Calleja N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8448461 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature