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Combating Online Health Misinformation - A Professional's Guide to Helping the Public (Paperback)
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Combating Online Health Misinformation - A Professional's Guide to Helping the Public (Paperback)
Series: Medical Library Association Books Series
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Danger of health misinformation online, long a concern of medical
and public health professionals, has come to the forefront of
societal concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of their
motives, creators and sharers of misinformation promote
non-evidence-based health advice and treatment recommendations, and
often deny health methods, measures, and approaches that are
supported by the best evidence of the time. Unfortunately, many
infrastructural, social, and cognitive factors make individuals
vulnerable to misinformation. This book aims to assist information
and health professionals and educators with all phases of
information provision and support, from understanding users'
information needs, to building relationships, to helping users
verify and evaluate sources. The book can be used as a textbook in
library and information science programs, as well as nursing,
communication, journalism, psychology, and informatics programs.
The book, written from the e-health literacy perspective, is unique
in its nuanced approach to misinformation. It draws on psychology
and information science to explain human susceptibility to
misinformation and discusses ways to engage with the public deeply
and meaningfully, fostering trust and raising health and
information literacy. It is organized into three parts. Part I: The
Ecology of Online Health Information' overviews the digital health
information universe, showing that misinformation is prevalent,
dangerous, and difficult to define. Part II: Susceptibility to
Misinformation: Literacies as Safeguards addresses factors and
competencies that affect individual vulnerability and resilience.
Part III: Solutions focuses on education and community engagement
initiatives that help the public locate and evaluate health
information. Chapters within the three Parts discuss technological
innovation and social media as posing novel risks as well as
presenting novel solutions to helping the public connect with high
quality information and building trusting relationships among the
public and information and health professionals.
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