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  1. www2.mdpi.com

    Vaccines are one of the safest medical interventions in history and can protect against infectious diseases and ensure important health benefits. Despite these advantages, health professionals and policymakers face significant challenges in terms of vaccine rollout, as vaccine hesitancy is a global challenge, and varies greatly with context, i.e., place, time, and vaccines. The internet has ...
  2. mendeley.com

    The analysis indicates that high vaccine confidence behaviour has a reinforcing effect on vaccination levels and helps to reduce the spread of an infectious disease. The results show that higher vaccine confidence can mitigate against the impact of misinformation, and by doing so can contribute to the enhanced control of an infectious disease ...
  3. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Misinformation is not only an issue during large-scale infectious disease outbreaks; the advent of the Internet and social media have exacerbated the creation and dissemination of misinformation in all areas of health (Chou et al. 2018). Social media feeds are closed networks curated to individual beliefs that amplify misinformation by creating ...
  4. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Establishing partnerships between infectious disease or public health professionals and pillars of the community such as religious leaders or local officials may be more successful in highlighting misinformation and spreading accurate health-related information to the public. ... perspective are necessary as the medical community continues to ...
  5. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    This review identified the nature and pattern of misinformation during large-scale infectious disease outbreaks, which could potentially be used to address misinformation during the ongoing COVID-19 or any future pandemic. ... risk factor, transmission mode, complications and vaccines. Conspiracy theories also prevailed, particularly involving ...
    Author:Nashit Chowdhury, Ayisha Khalid, Tanvir C TurinPublished:2021
  6. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    • Widespread infectious disease transmission negatively impacts both health and the economy. • Appropriate public health strategies that reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission safeguard both health and the economy. • The pandemic response must involve economic, psychological, and sociological views to ensure that lives and livelihoods are protected.
  7. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu

    This paper discusses patterns of public health misinformation observed during infectious disease epidemics. Specifically, we group epidemic-related misinformation into four categories: transmission, prevention, treatment, and vaccination. By developing tools, algorithms, and other resources around these categories, institutions, companies, and individuals can proactively limit and counter the ...
  8. link.springer.com

    Aim The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, impacted the flow of life and resulted in an immeasurable amount of socio-economic damage. However, not all of this damage is attributable to the disease itself; much of it has occurred due to the prevailing misinformation around COVID-19. This rapid integrative review will draw on knowledge from the ...
  9. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    National Center for Biotechnology Information

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC7599980

    The role of misinformation diffusion during a pandemic is crucial. An aspect that requires particular attention in the analysis of misinfodemics is the rationale of the source of false information, in particular how the behavior of agents spreading misinformation through traditional communication outlets and social networks can influence the diffusion of the disease.

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