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Fighting the infodemic: the 4 i Framework for Advancing Communication and Trust.
Sundelson, Anne E; Jamison, Amelia M; Huhn, Noelle; Pasquino, Sarah-Louise; Sell, Tara Kirk.
Afiliação
  • Sundelson AE; Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 700 E. Pratt Street, Suite 900, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA. asundel1@jhu.edu.
  • Jamison AM; Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Room E7527, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. asundel1@jhu.edu.
  • Huhn N; Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
  • Pasquino SL; Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 700 E. Pratt Street, Suite 900, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
  • Sell TK; Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Room E7527, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
BMC Public Health ; 23(1): 1662, 2023 08 30.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37644563
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

The proliferation of false and misleading health claims poses a major threat to public health. This ongoing "infodemic" has prompted numerous organizations to develop tools and approaches to manage the spread of falsehoods and communicate more effectively in an environment of mistrust and misleading information. However, these tools and approaches have not been systematically characterized, limiting their utility. This analysis provides a characterization of the current ecosystem of infodemic management strategies, allowing public health practitioners, communicators, researchers, and policy makers to gain an understanding of the tools at their disposal.

METHODS:

A multi-pronged search strategy was used to identify tools and approaches for combatting health-related misinformation and disinformation. The search strategy included a scoping review of academic literature; a review of gray literature from organizations involved in public health communications and misinformation/disinformation management; and a review of policies and infodemic management approaches from all U.S. state health departments and select local health departments. A team of annotators labelled the main feature(s) of each tool or approach using an iteratively developed list of tags.

RESULTS:

We identified over 350 infodemic management tools and approaches. We introduce the 4 i Framework for Advancing Communication and Trust (4 i FACT), a modified social-ecological model, to characterize different levels of infodemic intervention informational, individual, interpersonal, and institutional. Information-level strategies included those designed to amplify factual information, fill information voids, debunk false information, track circulating information, and verify, detect, or rate the credibility of information. Individual-level strategies included those designed to enhance information literacy and prebunking/inoculation tools. Strategies at the interpersonal/community level included resources for public health communicators and community engagement approaches. Institutional and structural approaches included resources for journalists and fact checkers, tools for managing academic/scientific literature, resources for infodemic researchers/research, resources for infodemic managers, social media regulation, and policy/legislation.

CONCLUSIONS:

The 4 i FACT provides a useful way to characterize the current ecosystem of infodemic management strategies. Recognizing the complex and multifaceted nature of the ongoing infodemic, efforts should be taken to utilize and integrate strategies across all four levels of the modified social-ecological model.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Confiança / Comunicação em Saúde Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: BMC Public Health Assunto da revista: SAUDE PUBLICA Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Confiança / Comunicação em Saúde Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: BMC Public Health Assunto da revista: SAUDE PUBLICA Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Estados Unidos