Using a Global Pandemic as a Teachable Moment to Promote Vaccine Literacy and Build Resilience to Misinformation*
Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305906
Who Is Susceptible to Online Health Misinformation?*
Original English article published in the American Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305908
Infodemics and infodemiology: a short history, a long future
An “infodemic” is defined as “an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – occurring during an epidemic”. This paper describes the characteristics of an infodemic, which combines an inordinately high volume of information (leading to problems relating to locating the information, storage capacity, ensuring quality, visibility and validity) and rapid output (making it hard to assess its value, manage the gatekeeping process, apply results, track its history, and leading to a waste of effort).
Information management of the infodemic in digital media: experience of news agencies
This article offers guidance on managing the infodemic in digital media, based on the experiences of news agencies at a time when an increase in journalistic production is coinciding with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Evolution and impact of the infodemic on the child population in times of COVID-19
The provision of timely, clear, correct information is an important strategy for controlling panic and containing a pandemic outbreak. However, as this task has not been prioritized in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a new lethal enemy has emerged that now poses another crisis, namely, the "infodemic", with consequences that have affected the entire population worldwide.
COVID-19 infodemic management strategies in South America
Objective.
To identify evidence of infodemic management strategies in the ministry of health websites in 10 South American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).
Infodemic: fake news and COVID-19 mortality trends in six Latin American countries
Objective.
Describe patterns in the dissemination of fake news in the context of COVID-19 mortality and infodemic management in six Latin American countries.
Leaving no one behind: a methodology for setting health inequality reduction targets for Sustainable Development Goal 3*
Objectives.
To present a methodology for the simultaneous setting of quantitative targets that reflect both an improvement in the national average of an indicator for Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), as well as a reduction in its geographic inequality.
Critical care medicine in the French Territories in the Americas: Current situation and prospects
Hospitals in the French Territories in the Americas (FTA) work according to international and French standards. This paper aims to describe different aspects of critical care in the FTA. For this, we reviewed official information about population size and intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity in the FTA and literature on FTA ICU specificities. Persons living in or visiting the FTA are exposed to specific risks, mainly severe road traffic injuries, envenoming, stab or ballistic wounds, and emergent tropical infectious diseases.
Planning for health equity in the Americas: an analysis of national health plans
There is growing recognition that health and well-being improvements have not been shared across populations in the Americas. This article analyzes 32 national health sector policies, strategies, and plans across 10 different areas of health equity to understand, from one perspective, how equity is being addressed in the region. It finds significant variation in the substance and structure of how the health plans handle the issue. Nearly all countries explicitly include health equity as a clear goal, and most address the social determinants of health.
